Ananta Kumar Giri

Conversations and Transformations

Toward a New Ethics of Self and Society

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Produktbeschreibung

In this intriguing new book, Indian social theorist Ananta Kumar Giri issues a stirring call for scholars of contemporary social theory and practice to grapple with late modernity's most pressing social and political issues. Giri counterposes Western thought with Indian social theory in a work that ranges across an array of Indian texts and ideas, hitherto ignored by Western scholarship. Included, along with the mainstays of Indian intellectual thought like Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, are lesser known Indian social theorists, economists, sociologists, and essayists who argue for transcendence of self-interest, social responsibility, and political renewal. Thoughtfully argued and lucidly written, this work offers the reader a genuine 'transdisciplinary' learning experience, going beyond European ethnocentrism to make social theory a truly global conversation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780739103210
• ISBN-10: 0739103210
• Artikelnr.: 33615656

Autorenporträt

Ananta Kumar Giri is Associate Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. He is the author of Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Social Criticism, Cultural Creativity, and the Contemporary
Dialectics of Transformations Chapter 2 Moral Commitments and the
Transformation of Politics: Kant, Gandhi, and Beyond Chapter 3 Gandhi,
Tagore, and a New Ethics of Argumentation Chapter 4 Literature and the
Tapashya of Transformation Chapter 5 Socrates and the Pig Chapter 6
Universities and the Horizons of the Future Chapter 7 Audited
Accountability and the Imperatives of Responsibility: Beyond the Primacy of
the Political Chapter 8 Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries: Creative
Experiments and the Critiques of Modernity Chapter 9 Gender and the
Overcoming of Ego Chapter 10 Exclusion and Integration: The Moral Struggles
Chapter 11 Rethinking the Imperatives of Responsibility: Development
Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Challenge of Poverty Chapter 12 Rethinking
Human Well-Being: A Dialogue with Amartya Sen Chapter 13 Well-Being of
Institutions: Problematic Justice and the Challenge of Transformation
Chapter 14 Rethinking Systems as Frames of Coordination: Dialogical
Intersubjectivity and the Creativity of Action Chapter 15 Rethinking Civil
Society Chapter 16 Civil Society and the Limits of Identity Politics
Chapter 17 The Calling of an Ethics of Servanthood