UID:
almahu_9949870005302882
Format:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789354359378
Content:
The book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times. A crisis is at once a historically situated phenomenon and a recurring idea of endangerment or a breakdown in creaturely living. By making our choices stark and difficult, crisis opens up the possibility for genuinely fresh and unexpected beginnings. At the most fundamental level, crisis is the disintegration of relationality among creatures. In fact, crisis is a battle of attrition with and within selfhood. It has the potential to turn into a norm in everyday interaction. It then stops being an exception and becomes the very condition of our living. Through the rubrics of the assured and the restive, the volume addresses how selfhood encounters and negotiates concentric circles of crisis in life and literature. Does the idea of crisis allow us to formulate the idea of self in a particular way? How do certain sources and resources within the self - stoic or heroic, political and creative - come into being during crisis? While some essays delve into questions of repose and sensuality by highlighting specific cases and trajectories from the subcontinent, others deal with questions of mythology, politics and art in a wider sense. One essay directly addresses the core literary question of the uncanny and its relation to selfhood. While specific concerns illuminate each essay, the volume speaks with a collective, global sense of crisis that faces humanity now and tentatively offers some prospects to deal with it.
Note:
〈i〉Introduction〈/i〉: Prasanta Chakrabarty I. Lineages of the Self 〈i〉The Formation and Transformation of the Self in Ancient Greek Political Discourse〈/i〉〈b〉: 〈/b〉Vijay Tankha 〈i〉Aesthetic Repose (Visranti), Self and the Emerging Figure of the Rasika in Early Medieval India〈/i〉: 〈b〉 〈/b〉Parul Dave Mukherji〈i〉〈/i〉 II. Self in Crisis 〈i〉A Difficult Freedom: Democracy,〈b〉 〈/b〉〈/i〉〈i〉Disappointment, and the Indefatigable〈/i〉〈b〉: 〈/b〉Aishwary Kumar 〈i〉Crisis and the Uncanny〈/i〉〈b〉: 〈/b〉N.A. Jacob 〈i〉Catastrophe and the Lyrical Self〈/i〉: Prasanta Chakravarty〈b〉〈/b〉 III. Aesthetics of the Self 〈i〉Animamnemo〈/i〉: Sovereignty of the Self and the Mnemocultures of Individuation:〈b〉〈/b〉D. Venkat Rao 〈i〉Subjects Nature Divination〈/i〉: Rimli Bhattacharya 〈i〉The Sensing Self: The Adventitious Roots of Aesthetic Sovereignty:〈/i〉〈b〉〈/b〉Rahul Govind IV. Self in Practice 〈i〉Dialectics of Transcendental and Embodied Self:〈/i〉〈i〉〈/i〉〈i〉Andrei Tarkovsky's Image Motif in Context〈/i〉: 〈b〉 〈/b〉Babu Thaliath 〈i〉The Lost Object: Truth in Autobiography〈/i〉〈b〉: 〈/b〉Rachit Anand 〈i〉The Möbius strip of Literature and Criticism: Gabriel Josipovici's 〈/i〉Moo Pak〈b〉〈i〉: 〈/i〉〈/b〉Anirudh Karnick
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9789354359378
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9789354359378?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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