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020			_a9781478012443
020			_z9781478090373
020			_z9781478010906
020			_z9781478009870
035			_a(OCoLC)1184122124
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
100	1		_aBanerjee, Prathama, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aElementary Aspects of the Political : _bHistories from the Global South / _cPrathama Banerjee.
264		1	_aDurham : _bDuke University Press, _c2020.
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2021
264		4	_c©2020.
300			_a1 online resource (284 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aA Theory in forms book
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.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aPolitical science _xPhilosophy. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01069819
650		7	_aPolitical science. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01069781
650		0	_aPolitical science _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aPolitical science _zIndia.
651		7	_aIndia. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01210276
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/81401/
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