Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures

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Political psychologist, cultural theorist, sociologist, and much more, Ashis Nandy is unquestionably one of the country’s most exciting and original thinkers. For over three decades, he has resisted the straightjacket of received ideologies, deploying the tactics of a street fighter against impersonal institutional structures. In his own inimitable way, Nandy has provided trenchant critiques of modernity, spoken for the disenfranchised and silenced, and unsettled established ideas. This volume includes a rare selection of his writings as well as analytical perspectives on his work by a varied cast of public intellectuals, among them literary critics, a film theorist, a historian of Chinese intellectual history, and a historian of the subaltern school. It is prefaced by a lively dialogue between Nandy and the editor, which invites the reader to canvas the writings and intellectual interests of this versatile thinker.  This paperback edition, with an exquisite new introduction that contextualizes the enduring significance of Nandy’s style of thought  and an updated bibliography, will delight, provoke, and engage not only those familiar with his work but also a new generation of readers.