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This book explores the future of liberalism in India. It moves away
from traditional approaches and draws upon resources from other
disciplines – those subjects which some might think don’t
strictly fall under political science or theory – like
anthropology, literature, philosophy — to critically engage with
the condition of late capitalist modernity in India. The essays in
the volume trace liberalism's journey through modern Indian history
to give us a new standpoint to understand current debates and also
point to some internal contradictions of Indian liberalism. The
volume will be of importance to scholars and researchers of
political science, especially political theory, and South Asian
studies.
This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere
conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which
are relativistic. In other words, it talks about how
socio-political norms are built out of our natural social behaviour
but at the same time also have objective normative validity. The
volume puts forth an alternative model called the recognitional
model which can help us address some of the socio-political
concerns we face in today's world. It addresses the problem with a
purely legalistic framework of addressing social injustice is that
law, due its universalistic assumptions, regarding human nature,
tends to glide over the particular differences that might exist
between people. This book discusses how we know that in our daily
lives, we value people not only because that person is a legal
human being but because that person is our father, mother, our
teacher etc. There is a whole network of acts of social respect
that we engage in with the other in our social sphere which the
legal framework can't quite capture. This volume sheds light on the
political consequence of legal reasoning is that it is formalistic
in the sense that legal relations can't successfully codify the
immediate epistemic context from which social identities emerge. An
introspective work, this book will be of great interest to scholars
and researchers of linguistics, political philosophy, law and human
rights, and social theory.
How do we explain violence? What is so significant of modern forms
of violence that it has produced such large-scale destruction in
its wake? This volume builds on the political philosophy of
Wittgenstein, his notions of peace and violence, to explore how
violence in any form is contained in culturally or ideologically
formed institutions. Drawing on Wittgenstein's work on language, it
explores the link between language and violence, everydayness and
culture. It examines everyday instances of micro-violence that we
sometimes forget to recall. This book puts forth the claim that any
theory of violence will have to touch on the myriad - both micro
and macro - political, social and cultural interactions that make
up the human condition. The author further comments on the unseen
ways violence has been instrumentalized in modern history's many
stages to create a spectacle of power to reinforce authority. The
volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of peace
and conflict studies, political philosophy, linguistics and modern
history.
How do we explain violence? What is so significant of modern forms
of violence that it has produced such large-scale destruction in
its wake? This volume builds on the political philosophy of
Wittgenstein, his notions of peace and violence, to explore how
violence in any form is contained in culturally or ideologically
formed institutions. Drawing on Wittgenstein's work on language, it
explores the link between language and violence, everydayness and
culture. It examines everyday instances of micro-violence that we
sometimes forget to recall. This book puts forth the claim that any
theory of violence will have to touch on the myriad - both micro
and macro - political, social and cultural interactions that make
up the human condition. The author further comments on the unseen
ways violence has been instrumentalized in modern history's many
stages to create a spectacle of power to reinforce authority. The
volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of peace
and conflict studies, political philosophy, linguistics and modern
history.
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