Review:
A stunning collection, altogether timely, embracing literature, philosophy, the social sciences, Asia, Europe, and Africa, digital globality from thoroughly pluralized perspectives. -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University, USA This compelling and rich volume boldly moves past a long tradition of scholarship on the public sphere that has too simply focused on commitments, philosophical and political, to its ideals and norms in the West and their deviations. Strikingly shifting the frame, this volume offers critical and wide-ranging pieces that explore the work that ideas and practices of publicity do in the world at large. This worldliness, at once particular and universal in its strivings, reframes the philosophical history of the concept itself while critically interrogating its various cultural-political lives. Spanning the internet and the digital world, cinema in India, politics in South Africa, European and non-European philosophical, literary and political writings, and visual art in India and South Africa, the volume covers key areas of philosophy, technology, visual culture, literature and politics in and through which the public sphere is crucial and compelling site for understanding our global present. -- Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and South Asian Studies, New York University, USA
About the Author:
Divya Dwivedi is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.
Sanil V is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. He was the Watumall Distinguished Professor at the University of Hawaii, USA in 2010 as well as a Charles Wallace Fellow at the University of Liverpool and Directeur d'études Associés, at Maison des sciences de l'homme Paris, France.
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