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Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South

Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South

Banerjee, Prathama

Hardcover

Series: Theory in Forms

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceIndian & South Asian History

ISBN10: 147800987X
ISBN13: 9781478009870
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of the political from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banerjee identifies four elements of the political: the self, action, the idea, and the people. She examines selfhood in light of precolonial Indic traditions of renunciation and realpolitik; action in the constitutive tension between traditional conceptions of karma and modern ideas of labor; the idea of equality as it emerges in the dialectic between spirituality and economics; and people in the friction between the structure of the political party and the atmospherics of fiction and theater. Throughout, Banerjee reasserts the historical specificity of political thought and challenges modern assumptions about the universality, primacy, and self-evidence of the political. In formulating a new theory of the political, Banerjee gestures toward a globally salient political philosophy that displaces prevailing Western notions of the political masquerading as universal.

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