| Description |
1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations. |
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data file rda |
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Theory in forms |
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Theory in forms.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Self -- Renunciation and Antisocial Being -- Philosophy, Theater, and Realpolitik -- Action -- Karma, Freedom, and Everyday Life -- Labor, Hunger, and Struggle -- Idea -- Equality and Spirituality -- Equality and Economic Reason -- People -- People as Party -- People as Fiction. |
| Summary |
"In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of the Global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banerjee identifies four elements of the political: the self, action, ideas, and the people. She examines selfhood in light of precolonial Indic traditions of renunciation and realpolitik; action in the constitutive tension between traditional conceptions of karma and modern ideas of labor; the idea of equality as it emerges in the dialectic between spirituality and economics; and people in the friction between the structure of the political party and the atmospherics of fiction and theater. Throughout, Banerjee reasserts the historical specificity of political thought and challenges modern assumptions about the universality, primacy, and self-evidence of the political. In formulating a new theory of the political, Banerjee gestures toward a globally salient political philosophy that displaces prevailing Western notions of the political masquerading as universal"-- Provided by publisher |
| Note |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 13, 2021). |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified]: HathiTrust Digital Library. 2021. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2021. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Political science -- India.
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Political science -- Philosophy.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
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Political science -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01069819
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Banerjee, Prathama. Elementary aspects of the political. Durham : Duke University Press, 2020 9781478009870 (DLC) 2020016390 |
| ISBN |
9781478090373 (electronic book) |
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1478090375 (electronic book) |
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1478012447 (electronic book) |
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9781478012443 (electronic book) |
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