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"Is everything personal also private? The modern world is neatly compartmentalized into the private and the public, and the personal is often used interchangeably with the private as if they are the same. But are they? The book starts a new discourse by distinguishing the two and analyzing existing discourses of history, culture, politics, ethics, and law, asserts that the underlying theory is vastly different, often antagonistic. It radically changes the notions of the public, private, and personal by introducing the public–private–personal ""triad,"" challenging the modern binary of the public and private. This original and insightful book will provoke readers to rethink their use of the personal and the private as two different notions for the same thing. "

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Author:   Arnab Chatterjee
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9789352805204

ISBN 10:   9352805208
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   15 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prologue Acknowledgements Part One: Recovering the Personal in Politics, Ethics, Culture, Law, History, and Theory Personal in the Public Sphere: The Politics of Modernity Gandhi and the Ethics of the Personal: Is Personal the Terroristic Unity of Private and Public? Universal and Cultural Histories of the Personal Toward a Theory of the (New) Personal Part Two: Engaging the Personal: Modernity, Legality, and the Practice of Helping Personal in Colonial and Postcolonial Modernity: From Natural Personality to Personality of Organizations The Personal in Practice: Charity, Altruism to Social Work Epilogue: Personal Is Not Private: Rewriting Modernity for the Last Time Bibliography Index

Reviews

This book crosses the boundaries of philosophy and social theory in very interesting ways and is a great contribution to the development of the ideas of discourse, criticism, and subjectivity -- Veena Das, * Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University * The book is very engaging. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, * Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, The University of Chicago * In this book, Arnab Chatterjee attempts the difficult task of describing the place of the personal in the public/private divide that is supposed to form the basis of modern institutions in Indian society. His methods are both phenomenological and historical. Of particular interest is his treatment of the little-known works of Indian Hegelians such as Brajendranath Seal and Hiralal Haldar. This book promises to draw the attention of scholars of everyday practices in modern Indian life. -- Partha Chatterjee, * Professor of Anthropology Columbia University *

`This book crosses the boundaries of philosophy and social theory in very interesting ways and is a great contribution to the development of the ideas of discourse, criticism, and subjectivity' -- Veena Das, This book crosses the boundaries of philosophy and social theory in very interesting ways and is a great contribution to the development of the ideas of discourse, criticism, and subjectivity -- Veena Das, * Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University * The book is very engaging. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, * Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, The University of Chicago * In this book, Arnab Chatterjee attempts the difficult task of describing the place of the personal in the public/private divide that is supposed to form the basis of modern institutions in Indian society. His methods are both phenomenological and historical. Of particular interest is his treatment of the little-known works of Indian Hegelians such as Brajendranath Seal and Hiralal Haldar. This book promises to draw the attention of scholars of everyday practices in modern Indian life. -- Partha Chatterjee, * Professor of Anthropology Columbia University *

Author Information

Dr Arnab Chatterjee is former Associate Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences at the School of Law at Auro University, Surat, Gujarat. Previously he was a Fellow in social and political philosophy at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, India. With diverse departmental affiliations and degrees in political science, social work, sociology, history and philosophy, he has been a faculty in pluridisciplinary social sciences at various institutes and universities across India and West Bengal, including Yashwant Rao Chavan Academy of Development Administration (YASHADA), Pune; Jadavpur University, Kolkata; Vidyasagar University, West Bengal University of Technology etc. teaching social philosophy, applied sociology, social work, jurisprudence, political thought, engineering ethics, and more. He has held Ford Foundation and Enreca (the Netherlands) research fellowships from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences (CSSSC), Kolkata, and the SARAI initiative of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. His first book Categorical Blue: Personalytic Ethics in Social Work and Other Structures of Helping was published in 2017.

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