Gardening Sale!
 
 

Special Offers see all

Enter to WIN!

Weekly drawing for $100 credit. Subscribe to our Specials newsletter for a chance to win.
Privacy Policy

More at Powell's

Recently Viewed clear list

Guests | May 6, 2013

Benjamin Percy: IMG The Roof People

1 comment By Benjamin Percy

My sister slept with the light on until she was 27. She rightfully blames me. I would leap out of closets with my hands made into claws. I would... Continue »
  1. $18.19 Sale Hardcover add to wish list

    Red Moon

    Benjamin Percy 9781455501663
spacer

On Order

$50.25
New Trade Paper
Currently out of stock.
Add to Wishlist
available for shipping or prepaid pickup only
Qty Store Section
- Local Warehouse Anthropology- General

Other titles in the Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History series:

The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)

by

The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) Cover

 

Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

One of India's leading public intellectuals, Ashis Nandy is a highly influential critic of modernity, science, nationalism, and secularism. In this, his most important collection of essays so far, he seeks to locate cultural forms and languages of being and thinking that defy the logic and hegemony of the modern West. The core of the volume consists of two ambitious, deeply probing essays, one on the early success of psychoanalysis in India, the other on the justice meted out by the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal to the defeated Japanese. Both issues are viewed in the context of the psychology of dominance over a subservient or defeated culture.

This theme is explored further in essays on mass culture and the media, political terrorism, the hold of modern medicine, and, notably, the conflict or split between the creative work of writers like Kipling, Rushdie, and H. G. Wells, and the political and social values they publicly and rationally present. Also included is a controversial essay by Nandy on the issue of sati, or widow's suicide.

Synopsis:

One of India's leading public intellectuals, Ashis Nandy is a highly influential critic of modernity, science, nationalism, and secularism. In this, his most important collection of essays so far, he seeks to locate cultural forms and languages of being and thinking that defy the logic and hegemony of the modern West.
back to top

Table of Contents

Preface
The Discreet Charms of Indian Terrorism1
Sati in Kali Yuga: The Public Debate on Roop Kanwar's Death32
The Other Within: The Strange Case of Radhabinod Pal's Judgment on Culpability53
The Savage Freud: The First Non-Western Psychoanalyst and the Politics of Secret Selves in Colonial India81
Modern Medicine and its Nonmodern Critics: A Study in Discourse145
An Intelligent Critic's Guide to Indian Cinema196
Satyajit Ray's Secret Guide to Exquisite Murders: Creativity, Social Criticism, and the Partitioning of the Self237
Index267

back to top
back to top

Product Details

ISBN:
9780691044101
Author:
Nandy, Ashis
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Location:
Princeton, N.J. :
Subject:
General
Subject:
India
Subject:
Essays
Subject:
Politics and government
Subject:
20th century
Subject:
Civilization
Subject:
Asia - India
Subject:
India Civilization.
Subject:
Movements - Psychoanalysis
Subject:
Asia - India & South Asia
Subject:
Anthropology - General
Subject:
Asian and Asian American Studies
Subject:
Political Science and International Relations
Subject:
Anthropology
Subject:
India Politics and government.
Subject:
Political Science and In
Subject:
ternational Relations
Copyright:
1995
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History Paperback
Series Volume:
SB (168)
Publication Date:
April 1995
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
284
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 13 oz
back to top

Other books you might like

  1. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of... Used Trade Paper $10.00
  2. Never in Anger: Portrait of an... Used Trade Paper $7.95
  3. Encountering Development: The Making... Used Trade Paper $11.95
  4. In the mirror :literature and... New Trade Paper $21.25
  5. Beloved Used Book Club Paperback $3.75
  6. The Tale of the 1002nd Night Used Trade Paper $3.50
back to top

Related Subjects

Health and Self-Help » Psychology » History
History and Social Science » Anthropology » General
History and Social Science » Asia » General
History and Social Science » Asia » India » Ancient and General
History and Social Science » World History » India

The Savage Freud and Other Essays on Possible and Retrievable Selves (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) New Trade Paper
0 stars - 0 reviews
$50.25 Backorder
Product details 284 pages Princeton University Press - English 9780691044101 Reviews:
"Synopsis" by , One of India's leading public intellectuals, Ashis Nandy is a highly influential critic of modernity, science, nationalism, and secularism. In this, his most important collection of essays so far, he seeks to locate cultural forms and languages of being and thinking that defy the logic and hegemony of the modern West.
spacer
spacer
  • back to top
Follow us on...




Powell's City of Books is an independent bookstore in Portland, Oregon, that fills a whole city block with more than a million new, used, and out of print books. Shop those shelves — plus literally millions more books, DVDs, and eBooks — here at Powells.com.