Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness
Oxford University Press (1987)
| Abstract | 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 a process which co-opts the physical and psychological worlds of its victims and destroys the basis of all dissenting visions of a just world. Concluding with an essay on Gandhi and his critical reaction to Western civilization, this book is an important contribution to political science, sociology, psychology, and South Asian studies. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Political psychology Oppression (Psychology Civilization Philosophy | |||||||||
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| Call number | JA74.5.N36x 1987 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0195619889 019563067X | |||||||||
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