The Imbecile's Guide to Public Philosophy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jal, Murzban; Ali, Muzaffar; Bawane, Jyoti

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies the role of serious philosophizing in everyday life and looks at how authoritarianism negates philosophical and public reason.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000440416
• Artikelnr.: 62418031

Autorenporträt

Murzban Jal is professor and director at the Centre for Educational Studies, Indian Institute of Education, Pune, India. He was fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla and Senior Fellow at the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi, India. He is the author of twelve books including The Seductions of Karl Marx (2010), (ed.) Zoroastrianism: from Antiquity to the Modern Period (2012), The New Militants (2014), Why We Are Not Hindus (2015), (ed. with Zaheer Ali) What Ails the Indian Muslims (2016), (ed.) Challenges for the Indian Left (2017), In the Name of Marx (2018), Zarathushtra and the Inmates of Paradise (2018), Yusuf and Zuleika: On the Return of the Despot (2019), The Prison House of Alienation (2019), Theory and Praxis: Reflections on the Colonization of Knowledge (ed. with Jyoti Bawane, 2020), and The Legacy of Karl Marx (2020). He has published extensively in various national and international journals. Jyoti Bawane is associate professor at the Centre for Educational Studies, Indian Institute of Education, Pune, India. Her areas of research are teacher education, critical pedagogy, online education, and tribal education. She writes on critical perspective of education, especially relating to teacher education and educational practices. She is a Fulbright Scholar and Erasmus Scholar. She is the author of Ashram Schools: Teacher Context and Challenges (2012) and coeditor of Theory and Praxes: Reflections on the Colonization of Knowledge (2020). Muzaffar Ali is assistant professor at the Department of Philosophy, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. His focus in research and teaching is on social and political philosophy and contemporary Indian philosophy with an emphasis on the idea of the public sphere and its normative implications. He is a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholar and has published in international journals of repute such the JICPR, Sophia, Culture and Dialogue, and Journal of World Philosophies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Imbecilism and its discontents 2. Public philosophy as
critique 3. What could be called the philosophical 'other'? 4.
Redistribution, recognition and participation-Nancy Fraser's theory of
justice in Indian social context: an exploration 5. Contestations that
refuse to die: the battle for language as a primary marker of identity 6.
Schooling - The invisible paradigm 7. Decolonizing solidarity & reciprocity
8. Understanding the "other" - a case of Kolkata Marwaris 9. Public-private
boundary: conceptual debates on privacy