Is the Personal beyond Private and Public?

New Perspectives in Social Theory and Practice
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-93-5328-986-7
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Is everything personal also private? The modern world is neatly compartmentalized into the private and the public, and the personal is often used interchangeably with the private as if they are the same. But are they? The book starts a new discourse by distinguishing the two and analyzing existing discourses of history, culture, politics, ethics, and law, asserts that the underlying theory is vastly different, often antagonistic. It radically changes the notions of the public, private, and personal by introducing the public–private–personal “triad,” challenging the modern binary of the public and private. This original and insightful book will provoke readers to rethink their use of the personal and the private as two different notions for the same thing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chatterjee, Arnab

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue
Acknowledgements
Part One: Recovering the Personal in Politics, Ethics, Culture, Law, History, and Theory
Personal in the Public Sphere: The Politics of Modernity
Gandhi and the Ethics of the Personal: Is Personal the Terroristic Unity of Private and Public?
Universal and Cultural Histories of the Personal
Toward a Theory of the (New) Personal
Part Two: Engaging the Personal: Modernity, Legality, and the Practice of Helping
Personal in Colonial and Postcolonial Modernity: From Natural Personality to Personality of Organizations
The Personal in Practice: Charity, Altruism to Social Work
Epilogue: Personal Is Not Private: Rewriting Modernity for the Last Time
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chatterjee, Arnab
Dr Arnab Chatterjee is former Associate Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the School of Law at Auro University, Surat, Gujarat. Previously he was a Fellow in social and political philosophy at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, India. With diverse departmental affiliations and degrees in political science, social work, sociology, history and philosophy, he has been a faculty in pluridisciplinary social sciences at various institutes and universities across India and West Bengal, including Yashwant Rao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune; Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Vidyasagar University, West Bengal University of Technology etc. teaching social philosophy, applied sociology, social work, jurisprudence, political thought, engineering ethics, and more. He has held Ford Foundation and Enreca (the Netherlands) research fellowships from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSSC), Kolkata, and the SARAI initiative of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. His first book Categorical Blue: Personalytic Ethics in Social Work and Other Structures of Helping was published in 2017.