
Bonfire of Creeds
The Essential Ashis Nandy
Ashis Nandy(Author)
OUP India (Publisher)
Published on 8. July 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
506 pages
978-0-19-806576-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
594 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-806576-0 (9780198065760)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Ashis Nandy is Fellow at the Centre for Developing Societies, New Delhi