Buch, Englisch, 506 Seiten, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 140 mm, Gewicht: 508 g
The Essential Ashis Nandy
Buch, Englisch, 506 Seiten, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 140 mm, Gewicht: 508 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-806576-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
This anthology invites readers to revisit Ashis Nandy's thought and to participate in the open-ended, intellectual adventure of his work. The essays included do not merely reflect his long-term political and moral concerns but are also a continuous intellectual challenge to us. In this book, as in his entire intellectual life, the two pivots of his work have remained the political psychology of violence and the cultural psychology of knowledge. Trained to explore the
complexities of human subjectivity, he has continued to explore the extremes of human destructiveness and human creativity and to use knowledge as a therapeutic intervention in society and politics. This collection, introduced by Gustavo Esteva and Madhu S. Prakash, gives the reader a comprehensive
introduction to the democratic, post-secular sensitivities that shape Nandy's approach to transformative politics and his non-hierarchical, anti-technocratic ideas of people's knowledge.
