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Author Deftereos, Christine, 1974-

Title Ashis Nandy and the cultural politics of selfhood / Christine Deftereos.

Publication Info. New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Eading the politics of blame -- The conceptual battleground of anti-secularism and culturalism -- Critique at the threshold of politics -- Revolt and the role of the critic -- Critical interventions: towards the psychotherapeutic -- The psychotherapeutic as a mode of social criticism -- Conclusion: re-imaginings in the cultural politics of selfhood.
Summary Ashis Nandy and the Cultural Politics of Selfhood gives the reader an insight into a novel aspect of Nandy. The author insists that Ashis Nandy is not merely a self-described political psychologist; he is also an intellectual street fighter who comes face to face with the psychology of politics and the politics of psychology, thus affirming why this intellectual is one of the most original and confronting Indian thinkers of his generation. The main features of this book are its original reading and the authentic use of the psychoanalytic theory to characterise and demonstr.
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Subject Nandy, Ashis.
Nandy, Ashis.
Nandy, Ashis.
Political psychology -- India.
Political psychology.
India.
Psychoanalysis -- India.
Psychoanalysis.
Secularism -- India.
Secularism.
Toleration -- India.
Toleration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Deftereos, Christine, 1974- Ashis Nandy and the cultural politics of selfhood. New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013 9788132110453 (DLC) 2012049755 (OCoLC)820111243
ISBN 9788132113256 (electronic book)
813211325X (electronic book)
1299585132 (e-book)
9781299585133 (e-book)
9788132110453
8132110455