Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social

by Gopal Guru, Sundar Sarukkai

Overview

Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social offers a sustained argument that the social is experienced in various ways, through the senses as well as through conceptualizations such as self, time, and friendship. By looking at the experiences of everyday life in societies like India, it attempts to understand how different socialities are formed and sustained. It offers new insights on themes such as the ontology of the social, the way the social is experienced, the nature of social that operates in the world as invisible authority, along with the creation of notions such as social self and social time. Endorsing the concept of ‘Maitri’, signifying ethical relationship among multiple social entities, the book offers a distinct theory of the social supported by ample empirical observations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199097890
Publisher:	OUP India
Publication date:	07/30/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Gopal Guru is a former professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and chief editor at Economic and Political Weekly. Sundar Sarukkai is a philosopher based in Bengaluru, India.

Table of Contents

PrefaceI. IntroductionII. Conceptualizing the SocialIII. Sensing the SocialIV. Belonging and BecomingV. Social Self and IdentityVI. Authority of the SocialVII. Metaphysical and Lived Time of the SocialVIII. Maitri: Ethical Rationality between Different SocialsIX. References