03048cam a2200409 i 4500 21667611 OSt 20231202131618.0 200812s2020 ncua b 001 0 eng 2020016390 9781478009870 (hardcover) 9781478010906 (paperback) 9781478012443 (ebook) NcD/DLC eng rda DLC DLC pcc a-ii--- JA84.I4 B364 2020 320.01 BAN/E Banerjee, Prathama author. 9977 Elementary aspects of the political : histories from the Global South / Prathama Banerjee. Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. x, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier A Theory in forms book Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "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, ideas, 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"-- Provided by publisher. Political science India. Political science Philosophy. Online version: Banerjee, Prathama Elementary aspects of the political Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. 9781478012443 (DLC) 2020016391 Theory in forms. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 320.01 BAN/E 320.01 BAN/E 0 0 ddc 0 0 SOCIAL SCIENCE MES MES HIS 2023-12-02 0 320.01 BAN/E 44073 2023-12-02 13:17:11 695.00 2023-12-02 BK GL42R1 43890 43890