India Habermas The Normative Structure Of Public Sphere 1st Muzaffar Ali Malla by Muzaffar Ali Malla 9781003392750, 100339275X instant download after payment.

Malla, M. A. (2023). 'India, Habermas, & the Normative Structure of Public Sphere'. Routledge India; Routledge-Taylor & Francis Group (London & New York). DOI: ISBN (13): 9781003392750, 9781000883510 || ISBN (10): 1000883515.

Print ISBN (13): 9781032721910, 9781032492308 (Paperback), 9781032370996 (Hardcover) || ISBN (10): 103272191X. 

Abstract: This book examines how the contemporary Indian situation poses a strict theoretical challenge to Habermas’s theorization of the public sphere & employs the method of samvāda to critically analyse & dissect its universalist claims. It invites the reader to consider the possibility of imagining a normative Indian public sphere that is embedded in the Indian context—in a native & not nativist sense—to get past the derivative language of philosophical & political discourses prevalent within Indian academia. The book proposes that the dynamic cooperative space between Indian political theory & contemporary Indian philosophy is effectively suited to theorize the native idea of the Indian public sphere. It underlines the normative need for a natively theorized Indian public sphere to further the multilayered democratization of public spheres within diverse communities that constitute Indian society. 

The book will be a key read for contemporary studies in philosophy, political theory, sociology, postcolonial theory, history, & media & communication studies.

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Preface (i)

Acknowledgements (iv)

1. Indian Political Theory & Search for a Normative Public Sphere (p. 1)

2. The Idea of Public Sphere in Habermas (p. 33)

3. Indian Engagements with Habermas: Why Public Sphere? (p. 79)

4. The Indian Situation as an Exception to Habermas (p. 99)

5. De-Universal Rationality & the Imagined Indian Public Sphere (p. 137)

Endnote (p. 163)

Bibliography (p. 165)

Index (p. 185)