Elementary aspects of the political : histories from the Global South / / Prathama Banerjee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910733198203321
• Autore: Banerjee Prathama
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2020
• ISBN: 1-4780-9037-5; 1-4780-1244-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: A Theory in forms book
• Disciplina: 320.01
• Soggetti: Political science - India; Political science - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Self -- Renunciation and Antisocial Being -- Philosophy, Theater, and Realpolitik -- Action -- Karma, Freedom, and Everyday Life -- Labor, Hunger, and Struggle -- Idea -- Equality and Spirituality -- Equality and Economic Reason -- People -- People as Party -- People as Fiction.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the perspective of Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."--