Conversations and Transformations: Toward a New Ethics of Self and Society

by Kumar Ananta Giri and Ananta Kumar Giri

Book Overview

In this intriguing new book, Indian social theorist Ananta Kumar Giri issues a stirring call for scholars of contemporary social theory and practice to grapple with late modernity's most pressing social and political issues. Giri counterposes Western thought with Indian social theory in a work that ranges across an array of Indian texts and ideas, hitherto ignored by Western scholarship. Included, along with the mainstays of Indian intellectual thought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739103229
• ISBN13: 9780739103227
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 376 Pages