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This book is a compilation, the complete works of Ashis Nandy. As Nandy himself writes in his Prologue, it is an attempt to scan his scattered lectures, interviews and writings, including essays, columns and papers for newspapers and journals, through his entire life till now. Naturally, it covers the whole span of the ever-changing demography of his intellectual life. His intellectual practices span across countries, continents, languages, systems of knowledge and forms of silence.
Sommario
- The Barbarians, Toba Tek Singh, 2016,
- The Song of The Walkers: A Foreword by K. Satchidanandan xi
- Prolegomena xvii
- BOOK I: THIS, OUR TIME
- 1. The Idea of South Asia: The Origins of Post-Bandung Blues 3
- 2. The Gift of Partition: The Career of an Idea 13
- 3. Is Australia a Victim of the Ethical Limits of the Enlightenment?: A Note on the Culture of a State 20
- 4. Living and Dying in Kashmir 26
- 5. Despair, the Missing Rasa 34
- 6. From the Age of Anxiety to the Age of Fear 45
- 7. Idealism, Ideology, and Total Politics 54
- 8. Uprooting and the Landscape of Clandestine Selves 61
- 9. The Peasant 67
- 10. The Final Obituary: Death, Responsibility, and Sanjay Gandhi 72
- BOOK II: NEGOTIATING NECROPHILIA
- 11. Breakfast with Evil: Vijay Tendulkar as a Social Theorist of Violence 81
- 12. How to Live Happily with Torture 87
- 13. Nuclearism: An Epidemiology 99
- 14. The Fear and the Allure of Self-Destruction 105
- 15. Who Won the World Cup in 1994? 112
- 16. Invitation to a Beheading: Political Assassinations in the Third World 116
- 17. Laughter in a Mortuary: O.V. Vijayan 123
- BOOK III: THE WORK OF CULTURE
- 18. The Fear of Plague: The Inner Demons of a Society 131
- 19. Consumerism: Its Hidden Beauties and Politics 136
- 20. Coca-Cola 142
- 21. Sugar: An Incidental Obituary of the Humble Jaggery 148
- 22. Solitude 152
- 23. Ethnic Cuisine 158
- 24. Satyajit Ray's India: Cinema, Creativity, and Cultural Nationalism 165
- 25. Hindi Cinema and Its Half-Forgotten Dialects: Christopher Pinney Interviews Ashis Nandy 179
- BOOK IV: THE CLINICAL GAZE
- 26. Infantilization: The Nineteenth-Century Ghosts Haunting Twenty-First Century Democracies 203
- 27. Ajita Chakraborty: The Psychiatrist as a Social Critic 210
- 28. The Psychiatrist as a Political Critic 218
- 29. The Empire Thinks Back 223
- 30. Psychoanalytic Sociology and Postcolonial Predicament: An Interview by Livio Boni 229
- BOOK V: SHREDS OF HOPE
- 31. Beyond Brutalization 247
- 32. Gandhi after Gandhi: The Fate of Dissent in Our Times 260
- 33. Liberation of Those Who Do Not Speak the Language of Liberation 269
- 34. Freud, Modernity, and Violence: Analytic Attitude, Dissent, and the Boundaries of Self in Our Times 277
- 35. A Trialogue across Mortality 296
- 36. Death as a Beginning 304
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Ashis Nandy is a famous India political psychoanalyst and social theorist. He has been associated with the Press for over a decade now. He was the Senior Fellow and Former Director of CSDS for several years. His research interests centre on the political psychology of violence, cultures of knowledge, utopias and visions, human potentialities, and futures. Presently he is working on genocide.
Riassunto
Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures is a pre-emptive attempt to bring together the scattered writings of Ashis Nandy over his entire span of writing career and scan those scattered lectures, interviews, and writings including essays and columns for newspapers and journals for an in-depth analytical study. As the author himself explains, these are not his musings on static, time-bound issues, rather they capture how he confronts and negotiates the living past in the political, social, and cultural landscape of South Asia-starting from the manmade famine of 1943 to the Partition and freedom of India and the birth of Pakistan in 1947, the Bangladesh War in 1971, and the protracted civil war in Sri Lanka (1983-2009). The essays, often written as forewords to other scholars' works, straddle languages, systems of knowledge, and forms of voice and silence. Nandy attempts to identify a critical and intellectual strategy for survival in the Third World. He establishes that though a traumatic ambience-marred by aggressive development, instant nationalisms, or the brutalizing spectacles of modern nation-states-numbs one's imagination, it can also lead to new worldviews and multiple creative forms of resistance.
