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In time warps: the insistent politics of silent and evasive pasts ashis nandy argued that his work can be seen as an adventure in one kind of time travel, where one mainly uses or invokes the past to shape the contemporary’ in the present collection he reverses that journey using the metaphor of the future, imagined utopias, conceptions of cultural possibilities, social critiques of things to come, nandy redefines the present his effort is to demonstrate that, in a world increasingly dominated by a narrow range of ideologies, one must affirm that social ethics and a more humane society can be based on grounds other than those framed for the past 200 years by political and psychological forces that have tried to flatten and homogenize the world and reduced the possibility of diverse futures nandy critiques the enlightenment and the limited ideas of ‘reason’, ‘progress’ and ‘development’ given shape in europe he asks that we own up to our responsibility for alternative syst
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- PublisherPermanent Black
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 8178241366
- ISBN 13 9788178241364
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages232
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents Preface and acknowledgements. 1. The twentieth century the Ambivalent homecoming of Homo psychologicus. 2. The fantastic India Pakistan battle or the future of the past in South Asia. 3. Telling the story of communal conflicts in South Asia Interim report on a personal search for defining myths. 4. Beyond the nuclear age the future of futurelessness. 5. The beautiful expanding future of poverty popular economics as a psychological defence. 6. Towards an alternative politics of psychology. 7. Humiliation the politics and cultural psychology of the limits of human degradation. 8. The city of the mind the darkness and the shadows. 9. Shamans savages and the wilderness On the audibility of dissent and the future of civilizations. Index. In Time Warps the Insistent Politics of Silent and Evasive Pasts Ashish Nandy argued that his work can be seen as an adventure in one kind of time travel where one mainly uses or invokes the past to shape the contemporary. In the present collection he reverses that journey. Using the metaphor of the future imagined utopias conceptions of cultural possibilities social critiques of things to come Nandy redefines the present. His effort is to demonstrate that in a world increasingly dominated by a narrow range of ideologies one must affirm that social ethics and a more humane society can be based on grounds other than those framed for the past 200 years by the west and thrust upon the rest. Nandy critiques the enlightenment and all conceptions based on limited ideas of reason and development given shape in Europe arguing our responsibility towards alternative systems of knowledge at points in time when human beings turn emancipatory ideas ideologies and categories into new tools of violence and oppression. 210 pp. Seller Inventory # 65214
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