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This book studies the role of serious philosophizing in everyday
life and looks at how authoritarianism negates philosophical and
public reason. It sheds light on how philosophy can go beyond its
life as a discipline limited to an esoteric group of academia to
manifest itself via radical discursive practices in public life
which enable us to understand and resolve contemporary
socio-political challenges. It studies philosophy as a discipline
which deals with one's orientations based on experience, the logic
of reasoning, critical thinking, and most of all radical and
progressive beliefs. The book argues that the contemporary rise of
capitalism in modern society, resonating Émile Durkheim’s
cautions on "anomie", has favoured individualism, differentiation,
marginalization, and exploitation, balanced on an eroding
collective consciousness and a steady disintegration of humanity
and reason. Taking this into consideration, it discusses how
philosophy, both mainstream and marginal, can revive democracy in
society which then is able to confront global authoritarianism led
by the figure of the imbecile. Finally, it also provides a range of
new perspectives on the questions of civic freedom, hegemony of
language, social justice, identity, invisible paradigms, gender
justice, democracy, multiculturalism, and decolonization. This book
is an invigorating compilation of essays from diverse disciplines,
engaging the need to create a humanistic public philosophy to
transcend the state of imbecility. It will be of great interest to
students, scholars and researchers of philosophy, contemporary
politics, history, and sociology, as well as general readers.
The book examines how the contemporary Indian situation poses a
strict theoretical challenge to Habermas's theorization of the
public sphere and employs the method of samvada to critically
analyze and dissect its universalist claims. It invites the reader
to consider the possibility of imagining a normative Indian public
sphere that is embedded in the Indian context-in a native and not
nativist sense-to get past the derivative language of philosophical
and political discourses prevalent within Indian academia. The book
proposes that the dynamic cooperative space between Indian
political theory and contemporary Indian philosophy is effectively
suited to theorize the native idea of the Indian public sphere. It
underlines the normative need for a natively theorized Indian
public sphere to further the multilayered democratization of public
spheres within diverse communities that constitute Indian society.
The book will be a key read for contemporary studies in philosophy,
political theory, sociology, postcolonial theory, history, and
media and communication studies.
This book studies the role of serious philosophizing in everyday
life and looks at how authoritarianism negates philosophical and
public reason. It sheds light on how philosophy can go beyond its
life as a discipline limited to an esoteric group of academia to
manifest itself via radical discursive practices in public life
which enable us to understand and resolve contemporary
socio-political challenges. It studies philosophy as a discipline
which deals with one's orientations based on experience, the logic
of reasoning, critical thinking, and most of all radical and
progressive beliefs. The book argues that the contemporary rise of
capitalism in modern society, resonating Emile Durkheim's cautions
on "anomie", has favoured individualism, differentiation,
marginalization, and exploitation, balanced on an eroding
collective consciousness and a steady disintegration of humanity
and reason. Taking this into consideration, it discusses how
philosophy, both mainstream and marginal, can revive democracy in
society which then is able to confront global authoritarianism led
by the figure of the imbecile. Finally, it also provides a range of
new perspectives on the questions of civic freedom, hegemony of
language, social justice, identity, invisible paradigms, gender
justice, democracy, multiculturalism, and decolonization. This book
is an invigorating compilation of essays from diverse disciplines,
engaging the need to create a humanistic public philosophy to
transcend the state of imbecility. It will be of great interest to
students, scholars and researchers of philosophy, contemporary
politics, history, and sociology, as well as general readers.
In Sindh, girls mostly have very low access to the basic education
as compared to boys. Even if some of girls get access to primary
education, many factors hinder their further education and force
them to quit schooling. In rural areas, the female literacy rate
falls to 25 percent and girls' school enrolment falls from
fifty-five percent to twenty percent from Grade 1 to 6. There are
two major factors impeding girls' education in rural Sindh - demand
and supply. At the demand side, parents and the community have the
traditional and indifferent attitude towards female education, they
consider it worthless. As far as supply side is concerned,
unavailability of girls' schools, poor location of schools, lack of
facilities and infrastructure, the shortage of competent and
dedicated teachers are the big issues hindering female schooling in
rural areas. The alarming issue is the views of parents and
community about the need and value of female education. Majority of
the rural parents consider education as the sole right of the male
child.
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