Time Treks: The Uncertain Future Of Old And New Despotisms

In Time Warps: The Insistent Politics of Silent and Evasive Pasts Ashis Nandy argued that his work can be seen as 'an adventure in one kind of time travel, where one mainly uses or invokes the past to shape the contemporary.' In the present collection he reverses that journey, Using the metaphor of the future-imagined utopias, conceptiosn of cultural possiblities, social critiques of things to come-Nandy redefines the present. His effort is to demonstrate that, in a world increasingly dominated by a narrow range of ideologies, one must affirm that social ethics and a more humane society can be based on grounds other than those frame for the past 200 years by the West and thrust upon the Rest.
About Author :
ASHIS NANDY is a political psychologist, cultural critic, and futurist. He has been Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and is now an ICSSR National Fellow there. He is the author of a number of pathbreaking and influential books, including The Savage Freud and The Intimat Enemy.
Contents :
The Twentieth Century The Ambivalent Homecoming of Homo psychologicus The Fantastic India-Pakistan Battle or, the Future of the Past in South Asia Telling the Story of Communal Conflicts in South Asia Interim Report ona Personal Search for Defining Myths Beyond the Nuclear Age The Future of 'Futurelessness' The Beautiful, Expanding Future of Poverty Popular Economics as a Psychological Defence Towards an Alterntive Politics of Psychology Humiliation The Politics and Cultural Psychology of the Limits of Human Degradation The City of the Mind The Darkness and the Shadow Shamans, Savages, and the Wilderness On the Audibility of Dissent and the Future of Civilization Index