Traditions, Tyranny and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness

by Ashis Nandy

Book Overview

These six essays present an outsider's view of Western norms of progress, rationality, and maturity, and offer an alternate perspective on oppression in modern times. Well-known psychologist and social theorist Ashis Nandy stresses the importance of considering world views held by the "non-modern" cultures of the Third World in formulating a more humane and less technologically preoccupied vision of progress. Institutionalized oppression is seen as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195619889
• ISBN13: 9780195619881
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"