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The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present

Autor Lata Mani
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 feb 2013
The world is an interdependent whole of which everything is an integral, complexly related, part. Yet current ways of thinking, and being, persistently separate social phenomena and the individual self from the multiple dimensions with which they are interconnected. The Integral Nature of Things examines this revealing paradox and its consequences in a variety of sites: everyday language, labour, advertising, technology, post-structuralist theory, political rhetoric, urban planning, sex, neoliberal globalisation. Mani demonstrates how even though the interrelations between things are obscured by the ruling paradigm, the facts of relationality and indivisibility continually assert themselves. The book interweaves prose with poetry and sociocultural analysis with observational accounts to offer an alternative framework for addressing aspects of the cognitive, cultural, political, and ethical crisis we face today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415831383
ISBN-10: 0415831385
Pagini: 252
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge India
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: One Day at Noon -- The Aesthetics of Display -- The Grass Cutter -- Avenue Road Suite -- Every Aspect a World unto Itself -- The Tree -- The Room -- The Stationery Store -- A Street is Not a Road -- The Ideal of a Global City -- The Market is Like That Because People are Like This -- It Leaves You Wanting More -- Intimacy -- Root Vibration -- Maverick Designs: On Diesel Jeans and Geoengineering -- Beyond Antithesis -- In Other Words: Beyond Antithesis, Take 2 -- For Althusser with Love -- Reconjugating Law and Dharma -- Sex -- The Morning Light -- Witnessing -- On Repetition -- Toward Digital Dispassion -- The Phantom of Globality and the Delirium of Excess -- Cognition and Devotion -- Like the Wind -- Interdependence -- Reciprocal Flows -- The Tree and I -- In the Form of a Prayer: Reconsidering our Polemics -- Azan -- Human Dignity and Suffering: Some Considerations -- Returning to Our Senses -- Once Upon a Time in the Present -- On Days Like This -- Afterword -- Glossary -- About the Author.

Recenzii

These are deeply felt, lucidly written, vignettes on a tremendous range of ideas — of nature, religion, consciousness, work, sex, integrity, duty, suffering, the market, corruption, the fate of the Left. There is acute observation and probing analysis, poetry and prose, each voiced in turn. It is hard to say what this genre is and that is an essential part of its charm. When critical, it is resolutely but effortlessly gentle; when constructive it is without the strain or artifice of systematic theory.The Integral Nature of Things brings much instruction and a uniquely quiet form of pleasure.
Akeel Bilgrami, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

Descriere

This book analyses a revealing paradox: prevailing ways of thinking obscure the interrelations between things even as interdependence and indivisibility continually assert themselves. Mani traces the consequences in a number of sites — language, labour, technology, post-structuralist theory, political rhetoric, sex, advertising, neoliberal globalisation — interweaving observation, poetry and analysis.