Is it the personal beyond private and public? : new perspectives in social theory and practice
/ Arnab Chatterjee
- xxii, 258 pages
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.
Part one : recovering the personal polities, ethics, culture, law, history, and theory Personal in the public sphere : the politics of modernity Gandhi and the ethics of the personal : is personal the terroristic unity of private and public? Universal and cultural histories of the personal Toward a theory of the (new) personal Part two : engaging the personal : modernity, legality, and the practice of helping Personal in colonial and postcolonial modernity : from natural personality to personality of organizations The personal in practice : charity, altruism to social work Epilogue : personal is not private : rewriting modernity for the last time