Ashis Nandy Bücher

A polymath of our time, Ashis Nandy's writings and arguments have enriched our thinking for over four decades. Unafraid to walk a difficult terrain, he is one of the most radical public intellectuals of our time.In this book Nandy talks about a new India, where the fate of the country is largely decided by its political culture that has become the domain of two predominant psychological narcissism and despair. Looking at the nationalism of Gandhi and Tagore, Savarkar, and Madanlal Pahwa, and cultural psychology, terror and counter-terror, humiliation and human degradation, happiness, and modernity and the sense of loss, the essays open up the future for the next generation of intellectuals and political activists in India and in other societies.

This collection of Ashis Nandys essays is on the concept of the nation-state and its fate in India. He examines its social, political, and cultural aspects and covers communalism, secularism, terrorism, the development agenda, among other issues.

Using the metaphor of the future, Ashis Nandy's collection of essays critiques prevailing ideologies that limit cultural possibilities and social ethics. He challenges Enlightenment concepts of reason, progress, and development, arguing for a reimagining of the present through diverse futures. Nandy emphasizes the need for alternative systems of knowledge, particularly when emancipatory ideas are misused as tools of oppression. His work calls for a more humane society grounded in varied perspectives rather than the homogenizing forces of the past two centuries.