Is the Personal beyond Private and Public?
New Perspectives in Social Theory and Practice
Format:Hardback
Publisher:SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Published:15th Feb '18
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Is everything personal also private? The modern world is neatly compartmentalized into the private and the public, and the personal is often used interchangeably with the private as if they are the same. But are they? The book starts a new discourse by distinguishing the two and analyzing existing discourses of history, culture, politics, ethics, and law, asserts that the underlying theory is vastly different, often antagonistic. It radically changes the notions of the public, private, and personal by introducing the public–private–personal "triad," challenging the modern binary of the public and private. This original and insightful book will provoke readers to rethink their use of the personal and the private as two different notions for the same thing.
In this book, Arnab Chatterjee attempts the difficult task of describing the place of the personal in the public/private divide that is supposed to form the basis of modern institutions in Indian society. His methods are both phenomenological and historical. Of particular interest is his treatment of the little-known works of Indian Hegelians such as Brajendranath Seal and Hiralal Haldar. This book promises to draw the attention of scholars of everyday practices in modern Indian life. -- Partha Chatterjee, * Professor of Anthropology Columbia University *
The book is very engaging. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, * Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, The University of Chicago *
This book crosses the boundaries of philosophy and social theory in very interesting ways and is a great contribution to the development of the ideas of discourse, criticism, and subjectivity -- Veena Das, * Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University *
‘This book crosses the boundaries of philosophy and social theory in very interesting ways and is a great contribution to the development of the ideas of discourse, criticism, and subjectivity’
-- Veena Das,
ISBN: 9789352805204
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 410g
288 pages