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100	1		_aBanerjee, Prathama _eauthor. _99977
245	1	0	_aElementary aspects of the political : _bhistories from the Global South / _cPrathama Banerjee.
264		1	_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2020.
300			_ax, 274 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aA Theory in forms book
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aPolitical science _zIndia.
650		0	_aPolitical science _xPhilosophy.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBanerjee, Prathama _tElementary aspects of the political _dDurham : Duke University Press, 2020. _z9781478012443 _w(DLC) 2020016391
830		0	_aTheory in forms.
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