Conversations and Transformations
Toward a New Ethics of Self and Society
Conversations and Transformations
Toward a New Ethics of Self and Society
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In this intriguing new book, Indian social theorist Ananta Kumar Giri issues a stirring call for scholars of contemporary social theory and practice to grapple with late modernity's most pressing social and political issues. Giri counterposes Western thought with Indian social theory in a work that ranges across an array of Indian texts and ideas, hitherto ignored by Western scholarship. Included, along with the mainstays of Indian intellectual thought like Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, are lesser known Indian social theorists, economists, sociologists, and essayists who argue for transcendence of self-interest, social responsibility, and political renewal. Thoughtfully argued and lucidly written, this work offers the reader a genuine 'transdisciplinary' learning experience, going beyond European ethnocentrism to make social theory a truly global conversation.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Moral Commitments and the Transformation of Politics: Kant, Gandhi, and Beyond
Chapter 3 Gandhi, Tagore, and a New Ethics of Argumentation
Chapter 4 Literature and the Tapashya of Transformation
Chapter 5 Socrates and the Pig
Chapter 6 Universities and the Horizons of the Future
Chapter 7 Audited Accountability and the Imperatives of Responsibility: Beyond the Primacy of the Political
Chapter 8 Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries: Creative Experiments and the Critiques of Modernity
Chapter 9 Gender and the Overcoming of Ego
Chapter 10 Exclusion and Integration: The Moral Struggles
Chapter 11 Rethinking the Imperatives of Responsibility: Development Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Challenge of Poverty
Chapter 12 Rethinking Human Well-Being: A Dialogue with Amartya Sen
Chapter 13 Well-Being of Institutions: Problematic Justice and the Challenge of Transformation
Chapter 14 Rethinking Systems as Frames of Coordination: Dialogical Intersubjectivity and the Creativity of Action
Chapter 15 Rethinking Civil Society
Chapter 16 Civil Society and the Limits of Identity Politics
Chapter 17 The Calling of an Ethics of Servanthood
Product details
| Published | 01 Nov 2001 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 376 |
| ISBN | 9780739153642 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Series | Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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