The Need for Enemies: A Bestiary of Political Forms - Softcover

Bailey, F. G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080148474X ISBN 13: 9780801484742

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F.G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held a diverse collection of people together and what drove them apart. The last of Bailey's books about Orissa, The Need for Enemies offers a groundlevel view of regional politics in South Asia in the years following independence. In doing so, the book analyzes political problems that are of universal concern: incivility in public life, the inescapable dilemma of duty always in tension with interests, public consensus on what is right and good giving way to a babel of inconsistent moralities, and, not least, true believers contesting realists who see virtue in compromise.

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About the Author

F. G. Bailey is Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080148474X
• ISBN 13: 9780801484742
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 223