Ranjit Sau (11 results)

Condition: New. pp. vii + 126 Figures.

Condition: New. pp. 177 Illus.

Condition: New. pp. vii + 126 Index 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Contents Preface. 1. India approaching the third synthesis. 2. Pure Manu. 3. Hindutva Tattva or the Theory of Hindutva. 4. Modernity Islam and A Triple Liberation. 5. Freedom justice dignity An Arabian quest. 6. Towards a knowledge society in Arabia and in India. 7. Democracy and reform voices in the Middle East. 8. Family and Islam. 9. Political Islam economic Islam. 10. Three concepts of human development. 11. Iraq's constitution future imperfect. 12. Science democracy secularism. 13. Indonesia and a Big Bang. 14. Let two flowers bloom in Kashmir. 15. Matter and mind a tale of two Hegemons. 16. On the export and import of democracy. 17. Looking down the oil well. 18. Next French Revolution Dignity. 19. The underclass storms from the Nether Lands. 20. Equality freedom false promises. 21. The crisis of civilization democracy of democracy. 22. The next stage of capitalism end of secularism. 23. Einstein democratic socialism. 24. In search of rational belief two routes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights this is a modern concept of man. Democracy claims its legitimacy upholding this view. Historically the bourgeoisie had struggled against feudalism for democracy. But capitalism uses man as a mere source of labour power. That makes democracy incoherent. Some of the raging battles of the twenty first century are being fought with one side under the banner of dignity the other invoking the name of rights. Amply enumerated the elements of right are derived from presumed notions of dignity. But dignity has acquired no putative definition only multiple often conflicting translations. With a declining population at home the centre of world capitalism imports labour from the periphery. The immigrants sense of dignity is violated by the exercise of capitalists rights. Capitalism thus faces a new sort of crisis in the century of democracy. Human beings have many differences among themselves in external and internal features like inherited fortune living conditions and physical abilities. But their genetic disparity in terms of heredity codes is miniscule only one tenth of one percent. Men were born equal but they are unequal everywhere having been deprived of social resources. Removal of these deprivations which occur due to institutions can make human beings equal again. That would be the democracy of democracy a pathway to real progress. This constitutes the central concern of this book. 260 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Contents Preface. 1. A shadow of history. 2. The superpower and the soft powers. 3. Capitalism and liberalism. 4. A Utopia in Arabia. 5. Two Hegemons. 6. On Iraq. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Communism was the first of the mass movements in twentieth century Europe and the first to flourish in the Muslim countries. Its appeal was widespread. In Indonesia the largest of the Muslim countries communism had once swelled into an enormous movement it did so for a while in Afghanistan and in South Yemen. During the first half of the last century communism found deep roots in Iraq as well and became part of a Pan Arabist movement led by the Arab Baath (or renaissance) party. Baath socialism was an uneasy mix of the extreme left and the extreme right. In the Baathi myth there was one people of God and that one happened to be the Arabs. But the ideologues of Baathism were deeply worried about the Arab mind being corrupted by the influence of western ideas so they took the realm of thought as the prime battleground for supremacy advancing their purported arguments in terms of a particular religion. In the aftermath of the Cold War capitalism has become a global mode of production for which oil is a most critical input. Iraq has the second largest proven reserve of oil whereas the dominant capitalist country is fast depleting its own meager domestic resources. While the Baathists invoked a particular theology to resurrect the Arab Empire of the yore the dominant capitalist power cited the name of democracy in its conquest of Iraq. This book reckons that world history proceeds with the contradiction between the mode of production and the mode of reflection. Marx has given the laws of the former and Kant has enunciated a theory of the latter. Religion resides in and controls the people's mode of reflection. Today the world witnesses two hegemons one ruling over the sphere of production the other claiming authority over the domain of religious reflection. Paradoxically these two hegemons have entered into a coalition which cannot but be unstable. So the world system is yet to find a viable equilibrium. Under the circumstances the reconstruction of Iraq into a free independent sovereign democracy would face four basic issues namely the legitimacy of democracy the place of religions social and economic freedom of the individual and the umma. This book makes an attempt to provide corresponding landmarks for a possible constitution of Iraq. 126 pp.

Condition: New. pp. 177 Index 1st Edition.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. 121pp. Pencil markings in book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 202 pages. The cover is a little worn and the pages are lightly foxed and tanned. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 162 pp.; 22 cm. Subjects; Marxian economics. Commerce. Economic history. International trade. Developing countries Economic conditions. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 162 pp.; 22 cm. Subjects; Marxian economics. Commerce. Economic history. International trade. Developing countries Economic conditions. 1 Kg.