Ashmita Khasnabish

Negotiating Capability and Diaspora (eBook, PDF)

A Philosophical Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

Negotiating Capability and Diaspora: A Philosophical Politics scrutinizes Indian economist cum philosopher Amartya Sen's theory of capability, which rose as a critique of the modern American philosopher John Rawls's theory of primary goods. Ashmita Khasnabish develops Sen's theory of capability as a leitmotif throughout the book. She focuses on the following themes: 1) how Amartya Sen's theory of capability offers strength to immigrants and underdogs; 2) the significance of John Rawls's theory for Sen's theory of capability; 3) two aspects of Sen's theory: on the one hand it exposes the asymmetry between people of power and the powerless due to the discrepancy of resources, and on the other hand it shows how the powerless or the underdogs or the minorities could exert their will-power through the paradigm of choices to overcome; 4) finally, Sri Aurobindo's theory of democracy, which intersects with John Rawls's theory of comprehensive doctrines and political justice. Khasnabish also discusses authors Amitav Ghosh, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Toni Morrison, whose novels illustrate different facets of the theory of capability. Negotiating Capability and Diaspora develops themes that will be of great interest to students and scholars of political philosophy, feminist philosophy, postcolonial studies, literary studies, Diaspora studies, and world literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216346173
• Artikelnr.: 74846321

Autorenporträt

Ashmita Khasnabish is visiting scholar in the Women and Gender Studies Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is author of Jouissance as Ananda: Indian Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Literature and Humanitarian Identity and the Political Sublime: Intervention of a Postcolonial Feminist and taught at various colleges and universities in Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part 1: Philosophy Chapter 1: Conglomerate Theory Chapter 2: Beyond
John Rawls: from Primary Goods to Capability Chapter 3: Capability via
Aurobindo and Appiah Chapter 4: Capability Theorem through Nussbaum: East
versus West Part 2: Literature Chapter 5: Sea of Poppies: A Diasporic
Construct Chapter 6: Political Sublime Revisited Through The Namesake
Chapter 7: The Power of Capability in Morrison's Beloved Chapter 8:
Conclusion: A Philosophical Politics Postscript