Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South (Theory in Forms) - Image 1

£82.64

Duke University Press Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South (Theory in Forms)

Name: Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South (Theory in Forms)
Brand: Duke University Press
Price: 82.64 GBP
Availability: InStock

South Asia

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£83 today · previous high £83 · all-time low £82

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 24 days • 24 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 24 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £82 (24 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £82 - £82

Price levels: 1 different prices over 24 days

Description

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, the idea, 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. Review "A brilliantly original study of the relation between philosophical ideas and political practice, this book by Prathama Banerjee explores how key ideas drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Western traditions have shaped the field of the political in India. While analyzing the complex and often ambiguous relations of the political with religion, economy, literature, theater, and art, she gives us many surprising new insights into such canonical thinkers as Bankim, Aurobindo, Gandhi, Iqbal, and Ambedkar."--Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University "Simultaneously a contribution to history and to political theory, this insightful reading opens up a striking vantage point from which to explore the implications of the now-global concepts of political subjecthood, political action, political ideology, and "people." Prathama Banerjee's book exemplifies what it means when we say that postcolonial theory can redefine the very terms of political theory. In sum, this is a landmark work of immense originality and brilliance."--Ajay Skaria, author of "Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance" About the Author Prathama Banerjee is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India, and author of Politics of Time: "Primitives" and History-Writing in a Colonial Society.

Product Specifications

Brand: Duke University Press
Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 147800987X
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Asia > South Asia
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 December 2020
Listed Since: 11 February 2020

Barcode

No barcode data available

Duke University Press Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South (Theory in Forms)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Postcolonialism and the Law: Post-colonial Legal Theory: Origins and Tests / Sovereignty and Nation / Law and the Postcolonial / Security and Governance (Critical Concepts in Law)

Routledge Postcolonial Criticism (Longman Critical Readers)

Postcolonial Theories: 6 (Transitions)

Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: A Reader

The Postcolonial Gramsci: 36 (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia

Routledge Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature

Revolutionary Desires: Women, Communism, and Feminism in India

Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography (Routledge Studies in South Asian History)

Michael Ondaatje (Contemporary World Writers)

The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options (Latin America Otherwise)

Postcolonial Criticism (Longman Critical Readers)

Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)

Contemporary Caribbean Writing and Deleuze: Literature Between Postcolonialism and Post-Continental Philosophy: 236 (Continuum Literary Studies)

Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues: Intersections, Opacities, Challenges in Feminist Theorizing and Practice (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)

Reframing Postcolonial Studies: Concepts, Methodologies, Scholarly Activisms

Postcolonial Theory and Criticism: 52 (Essays and Studies)

Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions (Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions)

England Through Colonial Eyes in Twentieth-Century Fiction

What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Postcolonial Parabola: Literature, Tactility, and the Ethics of Representing Trauma

Politics in India: Structure, Process and Policy

Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

Routledge Cold War Assemblages: Decolonization to Digital