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The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves

By: Ashis Nandy

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The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves

By: Ashis Nandy

One of India's leading public intellectuals, Ashis Nandy is a highly influential critic of modernity, science, nationalism, and secularism. In this, his most important collection of essays so far, he seeks to locate cultural forms and languages of being and thinking that defy the logic and hegemony of the modern West. The core of the volume consists of two ambitious, deeply probing essays, one on the early success of psychoanalysis in India, the other on the justice meted out by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal to the defeated Japanese. Both issues are viewed in the context of the psychology of dominance over a subservient or defeated culture. This theme is explored further in essays on mass culture and the media, political terrorism, the hold of modern medicine, and, notably, the conflict or split between the creative work of writers like Kipling, Rushdie, and H. G. Wells, and the political and social values they publicly and rationally present. Also included is a controversial essay by Nandy on the issue of sati, or widow's suicide.

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0691044104

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Time Warps

Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion

By: Ashis Nandy

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Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion

By: Ashis Nandy

They are no longer as easily drawn upon to oppose the forces of intolerance and hatred.".

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Rutgers University Press

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0813531195

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9780813531199

Regimes of Narcissism, Regimes of Despair

By: Ashis Nandy

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Regimes of Narcissism, Regimes of Despair

By: Ashis Nandy

In this rare collection of essays, Ashis Nandy talks about an India where things have changed drastically in recent years. Looking at the nationalism of Gandhi and Tagore, Savarkar, and Madanlal Pahwa, and cultural psychology, terror and counter-terror, humiliation and human degradation, happiness, and modernity and the sense of loss, the essays open up the future for the next generation of intellectuals and political activists in India and in other societies.

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OUP India

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0198089651

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9780198089650

Bonfire of Creeds

The Essential Ashis Nandy

By: Ashis Nandy

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Bonfire of Creeds

The Essential Ashis Nandy

By: Ashis Nandy

With reference to India.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198065760

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Time Treks

The Uncertain Future of Old and New Despotisms

By: Ashis Nandy

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Time Treks

The Uncertain Future of Old and New Despotisms

By: Ashis Nandy

In this collection of essays, Ashis Nandy uses the metaphor of the future -- imagined utopias, conceptions of cultural possibilities, social critiques of things to come - to redefine the present. Nandy's effort is to demonstrate that, in a world increasingly dominated by a narrow range of ideologies, one must affirm that social ethics and a more humane society can be based on grounds other than those framed for the past 200 years by political and psychological forces that have tried to flatten and homogenize the world and reduce the possibility of diverse futures. Nandy critiques the Enlightenment and the limited ideas of 'reason, ' 'progress' and 'development' given shape in Europe. He insists that we own up to our responsibility for alternative systems of knowledge at points in time 'when human beings turn emancipatory ideas, ideologies, and categories into new tools of violence and oppression.

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Seagull Books London Limited

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1905422814

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Time Warps

Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion

By: Ashis Nandy

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Silent and Evasive Pasts in Indian Politics and Religion

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They are no longer as easily drawn upon to oppose the forces of intolerance and hatred.".

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The Intimate Enemy

Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism

By: Ashis Nandy

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The Intimate Enemy

Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism

By: Ashis Nandy

This edition, including a new preface by the author, explores the ways in which colonialism damaged the colonizing societies themselves, and how the likes of Gandhi resisted their rulers in British India by building on the lifestyle, values, and psychology of ordinary Indians and by heeding dissenting voices from the West.

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Oxford India Paperbacks

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0198062176

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9780198062172

The Romance of the State

And the Fate of Dissent in the Tropic

By: Ashis Nandy

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The Romance of the State

And the Fate of Dissent in the Tropic

By: Ashis Nandy

The essays in this volume written as part of psychological biography of the Indian state, explore the scope, limits, and fate of some key concepts in the mainstream culture of politics that have come to structure Indias public life. These concepts constitute the dominant public ideology within the consciousness of the expanding middle classes in the country and they range from concrete concerns like secularism and development to more abstract ones such as dissent and history. The essays, mostly inquire into the culture of the Indian state, suggest tangentially the directions in which to move for a cultural and psychological biography of the state. The idea of a moderate state, which was of a state that was neither over-burdened with the responsibility of engineering all aspects of its citizens lives nor of seeking to extend the market and global capital into every corner of every society, was not unknown to all societies at all times. While such moderate states may not have been great successes and may not have survived, neither can the modern nation-state system claim to be the greatest success story of all times. The question of its survival as an arrangement of political communities, too, remains to be finally decided. The essays in this book explore the vicissitudes of the idea of the modern state under different cultural and psychological conditions.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195693337

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9780195693331

At the Edge of Psychology

Essays in Politics and Culture

By: Ashis Nandy

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At the Edge of Psychology

Essays in Politics and Culture

By: Ashis Nandy

In this volume of essays Ashis Nandy discusses several major issues and personalities of modern India - Rammohun Roy and sati, the social and cultural forces represented by Gandhi and his assassins; concepts of woman and womanhood; and Indira Gandhi and the culture of Indian politics. The author argues that reform movements and the role played by many of these personalities was the outcome, not only of social and economic pressures, but of the individual's own psychological make-up, desires, and insecurities.

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133

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0195626214

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9780195626216

Talking India

By: Ashis Nandy,Ramin Jahanbegloo

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Talking India

By: Ashis Nandy,Ramin Jahanbegloo

Multifaceted thinker and prolific author, Ashis Nandy is considered one of India's leading intellectuals. For someone trained as a clinical psychologist and a sociologist, he continues to cross disciplinary boundaries and capture the imagination of the reading public and everyone interested in the world of ideas. This book is a journey into his mind, a mind that battles the dark side of modernity - a modernity that makes voiceless the dissenting voices of our times. The book explores Nandy's myriad and unpredictable ways of thinking and the essential humanism of his writings, which are a homage to the known and unknown victims of history. The book has grown out of a series of six comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian philosopher."--BOOK JACKET.

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0195678982

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Postdramatic Theatre and India

Theatre-Making Since the 1990s

By: Ashis Sengupta

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Postdramatic Theatre and India

Theatre-Making Since the 1990s

By: Ashis Sengupta

This book revisits Hans-Thies Lehmann's theory of the postdramatic and participates in the ongoing debate on the theatre paradigm by placing contemporary Indian performance within it. None of the Indian theatre-makers under study built their works directly on the Euro-American model of postdramatic theatre, but many have used its vocabulary and apparatus in innovative, transnational ways. Their principal aim was to invigorate the language of Indian urban theatre, which had turned stale under the stronghold of realism inherited from colonial stage practice or prescriptive under the decolonizing drive of the 'theatre of roots' movement after independence. Emerging out of a set of different historical and cultural contexts, their productions have eventually expanded and diversified the postdramatic framework by crosspollinating it with regional performance forms. Theatre in India today includes devised performance, storytelling across forms, theatre solos, cross-media performance, theatre installations, scenographic theatre, theatre-as-event, reality theatre, and so on. The book balances theory, context and praxis, developing a new area of scholarship in Indian theatre. Interspersed throughout are Indian theatre-makers' clarifications of their own practices vis-à-vis those in Europe and the US.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350154105

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9781350154100

Advances in Multivariate Statistical Methods

By: Ashis Sengupta

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Advances in Multivariate Statistical Methods

By: Ashis Sengupta

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World Scientific

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9812838236

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9789812838230

A Very Popular Exile

An Omnibus Comprising the Tao of Cricket; an Ambiguous Journey to the City; Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias

By: Ashis Nandy

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A Very Popular Exile

An Omnibus Comprising the Tao of Cricket; an Ambiguous Journey to the City; Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias

By: Ashis Nandy

This is a collection of three significant works of Ashis Nandy - The Tao of Cricket, An Ambiguous Journey to the City, and Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias. In The Tao of Cricket, Nandy shows how a game once identified with the British Empire - and a preserve of the British gentry - is now more South Asian than English. He examines the sneaking entry of the modern urban-industrial ethic and mass culture into a game that used to thrive on its ability to be a living critique of modern life. Through the story of Indian cricket, he attempts a systematic analysis of world-views, ideologies, cultural exchanges, and political choices. An Ambiguous Journey to the City - concerned with the apparently territorial journey between the village and the city - captures some of the core fantasies and anxieties of Indian civilization over the past century. Nandy argues that the decline of the village from the creative imagination of Indians in recent decades has altered the meaning of this journey drastically, and that the true potentialities of Indian cosmopolitanism cannot be realized without renegotiating the myth of the village. Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias is a collection of essays on the modern West and its cultural and psychological impact on the East. Nandy analyses, brilliantly and insightfully, aspects of East-West relationship - from Western visions, which have displaced all other ideals of a good society, to western histories that have displaced all other pasts of the East. Yet, the apparently defeated have, through the likes Gandhi and Senghor, tried to subvert the West's construction of the rest and to ensure cultural survival and on open-ended future. This volume is essential reading for social scientists, policymakers, activists and anyone interested in the way Indian politics and culture are now enmeshed with a global struggle to protect human dignity and democratic values. This is the third omnibus edition of Ashis Nandy's writings, the first two being Exiled at Home and Return from Exile.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198069308

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Book's by Ashis Nandy

The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves

The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves

Time Warps

Time Warps

Regimes of Narcissism, Regimes of Despair

Regimes of Narcissism, Regimes of Despair

Bonfire of Creeds

Bonfire of Creeds

Time Treks

Time Treks

Time Warps

Time Warps

The Intimate Enemy

The Intimate Enemy

The Romance of the State

The Romance of the State

At the Edge of Psychology

At the Edge of Psychology

Talking India

Talking India

Postdramatic Theatre and India

Postdramatic Theatre and India

Advances in Multivariate Statistical Methods

Advances in Multivariate Statistical Methods

A Very Popular Exile

A Very Popular Exile

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