The Imbecile's Guide to Public Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780367724641 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 206 str.

Murzban Jal; Jyoti Bawane; Muzaffar Ali

Opis

 This book studies the role of serious philosophizing in everyday life and looks at how authoritarianism negates philosophical and public reason.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Imbecilism and its discontents  2. Public philosophy as critique  3. What could be called the philosophical ‘other’?  4. Redistribution, recognition and participation—Nancy Fraser’s theory of justice in Indian social context: an exploration  5. Contestations that refuse to die: the battle for language as a primary marker of identity  6.  Schooling – The invisible paradigm  7. Decolonizing solidarity & reciprocity  8. Understanding the “other” - a case of Kolkata Marwaris  9. Public-private boundary: conceptual debates on privacy