Ashis Nandy

Regimes of Narcissism, Regimes of Despair

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 149mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9780198089650
• ISBN-10: 0198089651
• Artikelnr.: 37648155

Autorenporträt

Ashis Nandy is a political psychologist, social theorist, and contemporary cultural and political critic. He was Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) for several years, and is currently a Senior Honorary Fellow at the institute.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Nationalism, Genuine and Spurious: A Very Late Obituary of Two Early
Post-Nationalist Strains in India
* The Demonic and the Seductive in Religious Nationalism: Vinayak
Damodar Savarkar and the Rites of Exorcism in Secularizing South Asia
Modernity and Sense of Loss
* Coming Home: Religion, Mass Violence and the Exiled and Secret Selves
of a Citizen-Killer
* Return of the Sacred: Politics of Religion in a Post-Secular Age
* Terror, Counter-Terror and Self-Destruction: Living with Regimes of
Narcissism and Despair
* Humiliation: The Politics and Cultural Psychology of the Limits of
Human Degradation
* Modernity and the Sense of Loss: Or Why Bhansali's Devdas Defied
Experts to Become a Box Office Hit
* Happiness
* Index