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Is the Personal Beyond Private and Public?: New Perspectives in Social Theory and Practice

By Arnab Chatterjee

Book information

Publisher
SAGE Publishing India
Year
2018
ISBN
9789352805228, 9352805224
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4309445 bytes)
Pages
288\287
Time added
2020-06-30 22:41:23

Description

An examination of the notions of public, private and personal in the context of social theories and practices. Cover Contents Prologue Acknowledgments Part One Recovering the Personal in Politics, Ethics, Culture, Law, History, and Theory 1 Personal in the Public Sphere: The Politics of Modernity 2 Gandhi and the Ethics of the Personal: Is Personal the Terroristic Unity of Private and Public? 3 Universal and Cultural Histories of the Personal 4 Toward a Theory of the (New) Personal Part Two Engaging the Personal: Modernity, Legality and the Practice of Helping 5 Personal in Colonial and Postcolonial Modernity: From Natural Personality to Personality of Organizations 6 The Personal in Practice: Charity, Altruism to Social Work Epilogue Bibliography Index About the Author

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