The Modern Prince and the Modern Sage: Transforming Power and Freedom - Rilegato

Ananta Kumar Giri

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ISBN 10: 0761936610 ISBN 13: 9780761936619

Casa editrice: SAGE India, 2008

Riassunto

The prince has been the dominant archetypal model of being and becoming in modernity and despite the supposed beheading of kings in the modern world, it is the values of the prince - his will to power - that guide us in the modern world rather than the values of an unconditional ethical obligation of the self to the other. Power, politics and empowerment have provided determinant frames of self-constitution and social emancipation in the modern world and they have provided the singular definition of freedom as well. Modernity has been characterized by the ascendancy of politics and a power-model of the human condition over all other modes of being and values of life such as those of virtue, shraddha (reverence and love) and tapasya (loving meditation for transformation).

This book is concerned with the questions of rethinking and transforming power and freedom in discourse, society and history. It is born out of a realization that interrogating the modernist faith in politics and power as sole guarantors of human well-being and freedom constitutes an epochal challenge before us in this new century and in our new millennium. It draws from many different sources-traditional philosophies, religions, spiritual movements and alternative quests within modernity-in transforming power and freedom. It also brings voices of struggles from different parts of the world-Mexico, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia and India.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Ananta Kumar Giri is currently on the faculty of Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India and has worked and taught in many universities in India and abroad including Free University,

Amsterdam, University of Kentucky, Aalborg University, Denmark and Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany where he was a Humboldt Fellow (2006–2007). He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformations, theories of self, culture and society, and ethics in management and development. Dr Giri has written more than a dozen books in Oriya and English. Among his previous books are: Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998), Sameekhya o Purodrusti [Criticism and the Vision of the Future, 1999], Conversations and Transformations: Toward a New Ethics of Self and Society (2002); Building in the Margins of Shacks: The Vision and Projects of Habitat for Humanity (2002); Reflections and Mobilizations: Dialogues with Movements and Voluntary Organizations (2004); Self-development and Social Transformations? The Vision and Practice of the Self-study Mobilization of Swadhyaya (2008); Mochi o Darshanika [The Cobbler and the Philosopher, 2009] Rethinking Social Transformation: Criticism and Creativity at the Turn of the Millennium (editor, 2001); A Moral Critique of Development: In Search of Global Responsibilities (co-editor, 2003); Creative Social Research: Rethinking Theories and Methods (editor, 2004) and Religion of Development, Development of Religion (co-editor, 2004).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: SAGE India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0761936610
• ISBN 13: 9780761936619
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 664