Breakfast With Evil and Other Risky Ventures: The Non-Essential Ashis Nandy - Couverture rigide

Nandy, Professor Ashis

 
9780190120924: Breakfast With Evil and Other Risky Ventures: The Non-Essential Ashis Nandy
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ISBN 10 : 0190120924 ISBN 13 : 9780190120924
Editeur : OUP India, 2021

Synopsis

Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures is a pre-emptive attempt to bring together the scattered writings of Ashis Nandy over his entire span of writing career and scan those scattered lectures, interviews, and writings including essays and columns for newspapers and journals for an in-depth analytical study. As the author himself explains, these are not his musings on static, time-bound issues, rather they capture how he confronts and negotiates the living past in the political, social, and cultural landscape of South Asia-starting from the manmade famine of 1943 to the Partition and freedom of India and the birth of Pakistan in 1947, the Bangladesh War in 1971, and the protracted civil war in Sri Lanka (1983-2009). The essays, often written as forewords to other scholars' works, straddle languages, systems of knowledge, and forms of voice and silence. Nandy attempts to identify a critical and intellectual strategy for survival in the Third World. He establishes that though a traumatic ambience-marred by aggressive development, instant nationalisms, or the brutalizing spectacles of modern nation-states-numbs one's imagination, it can also lead to new worldviews and multiple creative forms of resistance.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ashis Nandy is a famous India political psychoanalyst and social theorist. He has been associated with the Press for over a decade now. He was the Senior Fellow and Former Director of CSDS for several years. His research interests centre on the political psychology of violence, cultures of knowledge, utopias and visions, human potentialities, and futures. Presently he is working on genocide.

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Éditeur
OUP India
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190120924
ISBN 13 
9780190120924
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
304
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