Is the personal beyond private and public? : new perspectives in social theory and practice / Arnab Chatterjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chatterjee, Arnab, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Privacy.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2018.

Summary:

Is everything personal also private? The modern world is neatly compartmentalized into the private and the public, and the personal is often used interchangeably with the private as if they are the same. But are they? The book starts a new discourse by distinguishing the two and analyzing existing discourses of history, culture, politics, ethics, and law, asserts that the underlying theory is vastly different, often antagonistic. It radically changes the notions of the public, private, and personal by introducing the public-private-personal "triad," challenging the modern binary of the public and private. This original and insightful book will provoke readers to rethink their use of the personal and the private as two different notions for the same thing.

Contents:

Recovering the personal in politics, ethics, culture, history, and theory

Personal in the public sphere: the politics of modernity

Gandhi and the ethics of the personal : is personal the terroristic unity of private and public?

Universal and cultural histories of the personal

Toward a theory of the (new) personal

Engaging the personal

Personal in colonial and postcolonial modernity : from natural personality to personality of

Organizations

The personal in practice : charity, altruism to social work

Epilogue: personal is not private : rewriting modernity for the last time

Bibliography

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789353280796

9353280796

9789352805211

9352805216

9789352805228

9352805224

OCLC:

1028747555