Ashis Nandy
A Life in Dissent
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ISBN:
9780199483945
Publication date:
23/04/2018
Hardback
384 pages
Price: 750.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199483945
Publication date:
23/04/2018
Hardback
384 pages
Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi
This book offers essays in recognition of a lifetime of works of Ashis Nandy, one of the foremost public intellectuals in Indian and global scholarship, a notable political psychologist, social theorist, and critic. It especially underlines the voice of dissent and unconventionality that is characteristic of Nandy’s work.
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Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi
Description
This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through Indian classical music, another recounts the pleasure of a simple walk. Another questions how it would be if Rabindranath Tagore lived in the twenty-first century; yet another, how ‘cool’ Indians are or might be in the future. Subjects as far apart as war and solitude find space in these musings. Through these lively engagements emerge key insights into the ideas, writings, and life of one of the foremost intellectuals of our time in Indian and global scholarship, thought, and dissent—Ashis Nandy.
About the Editors
Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, currently vice-dean and executive director at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.
Ananya Vajpeyi is an intellectual historian, currently a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.
Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi
Table of contents
Introduction: Ashis Nandy—The Art of Thinking Differently
Dear Ashis-da: A Fan Letter on Your Eightieth
Dipesh Chakrabarty
At the Edge of Selfhood
Fred Dallmayr
A Life in Dissent
Ramin Jahanbegloo
The Intimate Friend-Enemy
John Cash
A Tale about Our Hyper-masculine Selves
Tridip Suhrud
When Ashis Nandy’s Myths Meet Those of Westphalia ...
Phillip Darby
The Future of Coolness: Fashion, Fusion, and Our Futures
Arindam Chakrabarti
The A B C D (and E) of Ashis Nandy
Ziauddin Sardar
Celebrating the Organic Intellectual
Rudolf C. Heredia
Ashis Nandy: Master of Contrarian Reason
Richard Falk
The Gift of a Living Past
Lydia H. Liu
Relating Ashis Nandy’s Interpretations of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi
A. Raghuramaraju
(Just) War Is Hell
C. Douglas Lummis
The Real and the Imagined: M.N. Srinivas’s Social Anthropology and Short Stories
T.N. Madan
Non-player Dialectics
David L. Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah
The Cognitive Storyteller
D. Venkat Rao
At ‘Home and the World’ in Iraq 1915–17
Amitav Ghosh
Dial ‘M’ for Modernity: Rabindranath Visits the Twenty-first Century
Aseem Shrivastava
Walking as Philosophy
Shiv Visvanathan
Artist Alone
T.M. Krishna
A Gift of Song
Ananya Vajpeyi
Ashis Nandy in Conversation with Ananya Vajpeyi and Ramin
Jahanbegloo
Ashis Nandy, My Brother by Manish Nandy
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Plate section (between pp. 208 and 209)
Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi
Features
- A book on one of the most popular names in cultural studies and social sciences worldwide
- The first work to bring together a diverse range of insights on Nandy’s life and work
- Contributors, covering different subjects and countries, are names of global acclaim
- Includes an interview full of information on Nandy never known before
Edited by Ramin Jahanbegloo and Ananya Vajpeyi
Review
‘Ashis Nandy represents the most significant voice of democratic dissidence in India over the last five decades, having written brilliantly of the pitfalls of modernity, science, morality, media, and more, all with a pitiless sense of humour about elite patriotisms and a loving eye for the prejudices and passions of India’s masses. A great stylist and a great soul.’
—Arjun Appadurai
‘Ashis Nandy shines like a stubborn star on our moonless nights.’
—Gopalkrishna Gandhi
‘Ashis Nandy has allowed a fecund conversation to develop between Indian and French intellectuals on the link between science and society, enriched by his very original take on the ontology of non-human entities. Here is a clear case where an Indian political philosophy of nature contributes to the present debate on what is controversially called the “Anthropocene”.’
—Bruno Latour
‘Ashis Nandy is as close to an exemplary embodiment of intellectual life as you can get. He has for long been one of the most distinctive voices coming out on India on some of the most pressing issues facing humanity. His reflections on colonialism, violence, development, alternative science, psychology, culture, and society have immeasurably broadened our horizons. And he has done all this with erudition, grace, and that rarest of qualities in intellectuals—an admirable lack of presumptuousness.’
—Pratap Bhanu Mehta
‘No one has reflected as bracingly and rewardingly on India and the world in the last half century than Ashis Nandy.’
—Pankaj Mishra
‘Ashis Nandy speaks for the oppressed and the marginalized, and gives voice to the voiceless. Truly a national treasure.’
—Bhikhu Parekh
‘Over the past three and a half decades I have known Ashish-da as a brilliant intellectual articulating and defending freedom—always resisting, with courage and integrity, every attempt at the colonization of the mind.’
—Vandana Shiva
‘Ashis Nandy is an intellectual giant and great freedom fighter. He stands as the Frantz Fanon of our time!’
—Cornel West
Description
This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through Indian classical music, another recounts the pleasure of a simple walk. Another questions how it would be if Rabindranath Tagore lived in the twenty-first century; yet another, how ‘cool’ Indians are or might be in the future. Subjects as far apart as war and solitude find space in these musings. Through these lively engagements emerge key insights into the ideas, writings, and life of one of the foremost intellectuals of our time in Indian and global scholarship, thought, and dissent—Ashis Nandy.
About the Editors
Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian-Canadian philosopher, currently vice-dean and executive director at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.
Ananya Vajpeyi is an intellectual historian, currently a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.
Reviews
‘Ashis Nandy represents the most significant voice of democratic dissidence in India over the last five decades, having written brilliantly of the pitfalls of modernity, science, morality, media, and more, all with a pitiless sense of humour about elite patriotisms and a loving eye for the prejudices and passions of India’s masses. A great stylist and a great soul.’
—Arjun Appadurai
‘Ashis Nandy shines like a stubborn star on our moonless nights.’
—Gopalkrishna Gandhi
‘Ashis Nandy has allowed a fecund conversation to develop between Indian and French intellectuals on the link between science and society, enriched by his very original take on the ontology of non-human entities. Here is a clear case where an Indian political philosophy of nature contributes to the present debate on what is controversially called the “Anthropocene”.’
—Bruno Latour
‘Ashis Nandy is as close to an exemplary embodiment of intellectual life as you can get. He has for long been one of the most distinctive voices coming out on India on some of the most pressing issues facing humanity. His reflections on colonialism, violence, development, alternative science, psychology, culture, and society have immeasurably broadened our horizons. And he has done all this with erudition, grace, and that rarest of qualities in intellectuals—an admirable lack of presumptuousness.’
—Pratap Bhanu Mehta
‘No one has reflected as bracingly and rewardingly on India and the world in the last half century than Ashis Nandy.’
—Pankaj Mishra
‘Ashis Nandy speaks for the oppressed and the marginalized, and gives voice to the voiceless. Truly a national treasure.’
—Bhikhu Parekh
‘Over the past three and a half decades I have known Ashish-da as a brilliant intellectual articulating and defending freedom—always resisting, with courage and integrity, every attempt at the colonization of the mind.’
—Vandana Shiva
‘Ashis Nandy is an intellectual giant and great freedom fighter. He stands as the Frantz Fanon of our time!’
—Cornel West
Table of contents
Introduction: Ashis Nandy—The Art of Thinking Differently
Dear Ashis-da: A Fan Letter on Your Eightieth
Dipesh Chakrabarty
At the Edge of Selfhood
Fred Dallmayr
A Life in Dissent
Ramin Jahanbegloo
The Intimate Friend-Enemy
John Cash
A Tale about Our Hyper-masculine Selves
Tridip Suhrud
When Ashis Nandy’s Myths Meet Those of Westphalia ...
Phillip Darby
The Future of Coolness: Fashion, Fusion, and Our Futures
Arindam Chakrabarti
The A B C D (and E) of Ashis Nandy
Ziauddin Sardar
Celebrating the Organic Intellectual
Rudolf C. Heredia
Ashis Nandy: Master of Contrarian Reason
Richard Falk
The Gift of a Living Past
Lydia H. Liu
Relating Ashis Nandy’s Interpretations of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi
A. Raghuramaraju
(Just) War Is Hell
C. Douglas Lummis
The Real and the Imagined: M.N. Srinivas’s Social Anthropology and Short Stories
T.N. Madan
Non-player Dialectics
David L. Blaney and Naeem Inayatullah
The Cognitive Storyteller
D. Venkat Rao
At ‘Home and the World’ in Iraq 1915–17
Amitav Ghosh
Dial ‘M’ for Modernity: Rabindranath Visits the Twenty-first Century
Aseem Shrivastava
Walking as Philosophy
Shiv Visvanathan
Artist Alone
T.M. Krishna
A Gift of Song
Ananya Vajpeyi
Ashis Nandy in Conversation with Ananya Vajpeyi and Ramin
Jahanbegloo
Ashis Nandy, My Brother by Manish Nandy
About the Editors and Contributors
Index
Plate section (between pp. 208 and 209)
