Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures. The Multiple Selves and Strange Destinations of Ashis Nandy. - LAL, V.,
The Multiple Selves and Strange Destinations of Ashis Nandy
KORTE INHOUD
Ashis Nandy has occupied a distinct and unrivaled place in the intellectual life of India over the course of the last three decades. He is unquestionably the country's most exciting, and perhaps its most controversial, thinker. He has been described variously as a cultural psychologist, futurist, political theorist, cultural critic, and much else. What is certain is that his writings on secularism, the Indian state, and contemporary Indian society have ineradicably altered the framework by which India is sought to be understood. Nandy's some twenty odd books cover a vast terrain and offer trenchant critiques of the modern nation-state system, the supposed rationality of science, the violence of development, and the zero-sum politics of our times. Writing on subjects as diverse as the popular Hindi film, psychoanalysis, the cinema of Satyajit Ray, childhood, the culture of cricket, Gandhian politics, the politics of utopias, and alternative futures, he lays bare the oppressive nature of modernity and provides ...
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2013Uitgever: Oxford University Press400 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0198097301ISBN-13: 9780198097303Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!
