{"product_id":"assured-self-restive-self-prasanta-chakravarty-9789354359927","title":"Assured Self, Restive Self: Encounters with Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA crisis is at once a historically situated phenomenon and a recurring idea of endangerment or a breakdown in creaturely living. By making our choices stark and difficult, crisis opens up the possibility for genuinely fresh and unexpected beginnings. At the most fundamental level, crisis is the disintegration of relationality among creatures. In fact, crisis is a battle of attrition with and within selfhood. It has the potential to turn into a norm in everyday interaction. It then stops being an exception and becomes the very condition of our living. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough the rubrics of the assured and the restive, the volume addresses how selfhood encounters and negotiates concentric circles of crisis in life and literature. Does the idea of crisis allow us to formulate the idea of self in a particular way? How do certain sources and resources within the self - stoic or heroic, political and\u003cbr\u003ecreative - come into being during crisis? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile some essays delve into questions of repose and sensuality by highlighting specific cases and trajectories from the subcontinent, others deal with questions of mythology, politics and art in a wider sense. One essay directly addresses the core literary question of the uncanny and its relation to selfhood. While specific concerns illuminate each essay, the volume speaks with a collective, global sense of crisis that faces humanity now and tentatively offers some prospects to deal with it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Prasanta Chakravarty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9354359922\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789354359927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.32w x 1.00d","brand":"Prasanta Chakravarty","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44365399458047,"sku":"9789354359927","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_305ecf8c-e01b-4980-bc07-ef0f22bb2978.jpg?v=1697058303","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/assured-self-restive-self-prasanta-chakravarty-9789354359927","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}