An Ambiguous Journey to the City
The Village and Othe Odd Ruins of the Self in the Indian Imagination
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ISBN:
9780195683974
Publication date:
10/11/2006
Paperback
164 pages
216x140mm
Price: 395.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780195683974
Publication date:
10/11/2006
Paperback
164 pages
Ashis Nandy
Rights: World Rights
Ashis Nandy
Description
Divided into four sections, this book tells the story of India's ambivalent affair with the modern city throug hthe myth of the journey between the village and the city, and the changes that myth has undergone. It loks at the vicissitudes of the metaphor of journey; profiles various heroes as they negotiate the transitions from the village to the city and back to the village; and focuses on the psychopathological journey from a poisoned village into a self-annihilating city.
About the author
Ashis Nandy, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing SocietiesAshis Nandy
Description
Divided into four sections, this book tells the story of India's ambivalent affair with the modern city throug hthe myth of the journey between the village and the city, and the changes that myth has undergone. It loks at the vicissitudes of the metaphor of journey; profiles various heroes as they negotiate the transitions from the village to the city and back to the village; and focuses on the psychopathological journey from a poisoned village into a self-annihilating city.
About the author
Ashis Nandy, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing SocietiesJ. Allan Hobson
Susan Blackmore
Susan Llewelyn, Katie Aafjes-van Doorn
Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Religion
Dinesh Sharma
Sudhir Kakar
Sudhir Kakar
Essi Viding
Brian Rogers
Daniel Pick
David Canter
