The integral nature of things: critical reflections on the present
Publication details: Routledge London 2013Description: 242 pISBN:- 9780415831383
- M2I6 301.2
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Books | Vikram Sarabhai Library | Rack 8-A / Slot 268 (0 Floor, West Wing) | Non-fiction | General Stacks | 301.2 M2I6 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 178953 |
The world is an interdependent whole of which everything is an integral, complexly related, part. Yet current ways of thinking, and being, persistently separate social phenomena and the individual self from the multiple dimensions with which they are interconnected. The Integral Nature of Things examines this revealing paradox and its consequences in a variety of sites: everyday language, labour, advertising, technology, post-structuralist theory, political rhetoric, urban planning, sex, neoliberal globalisation. Mani demonstrates how even though the interrelations between things are obscured by the ruling paradigm, the facts of relationality and indivisibility continually assert themselves. The book interweaves prose with poetry and sociocultural analysis with observational accounts to offer an alternative framework for addressing aspects of the cognitive, cultural, political, and ethical crisis we face today.
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