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trade. ‘Hartman’s mix of history and memoir has the feel of a good novel, told with charm<br />
and passion, and should reach out to anyone contemplating the meaning of identity,<br />
belonging and homeland.’—Publishers Weekly<br />
The Business of Words<br />
André Schiffrin<br />
ISBN 9788189059477 Paperback 296 pages 5.5 x 8.5” Rs 295 (S. Asia only)<br />
A passionate account of the collapsing standards of contemporary publishing,<br />
across the world. ‘Schiffrin’s careful tracing of the growth of independent and<br />
committed publishing holds many lessons for India.’—Urvashi Butalia, publisher,<br />
Zubaan<br />
Un/Common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural<br />
Difference<br />
Kamala Visweswaran<br />
ISBN 9788189059415 Paperback 354 pages 6 x 9.25” Rs 450 (S. Asia only)<br />
This book offers an incising critique of the idea of culture at the heart of<br />
anthropology. ‘A major intervention in cultural studies, anthropology, and feminist and<br />
South Asian studies.’—R. Radhakrishnan, author of History, the Human, and the<br />
World Between<br />
Imagining a Place for Buddhism<br />
Anne E. Monius<br />
ISBN 9788189059194 Paperback 272 pages 5.5 x 8.5” Rs 350 (S. Asia only)<br />
In this pioneering study, focusing on two extant Buddhist Tamil texts, Anne<br />
Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, sheds<br />
light on the role of literature and literary culture in the formation, articulation and<br />
evolution of Tamil Buddhist religious identity and community.<br />
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–75<br />
Michel Foucault<br />
ISBN 9788189059224 Paperback 400 pages 5.5 x 8.5” Rs 490 (S. Asia only)<br />
In the lectures comprising Abnormal, Foucault shows how and why defining<br />
‘abnormality’ and ‘normality’ were prerogatives of power in the nineteenth<br />
century, shaping the institutions—from the prison system to the family—meant<br />
to deal in particular with ‘monstrosity’.<br />
The Future of the Image<br />
Jacques Rancière<br />
ISBN 9788189059231 Paperback 160 pages 5 x 7.5” Rs 200 (S. Asia only)<br />
The author offers a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing<br />
how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. ‘Rancière’s writings offer<br />
one of the few conceptualisations of how we are to continue to resist.’—Slavoj Žižek.<br />
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Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action<br />
Pierre Bourdieu<br />
ISBN 9788189059248 Paperback 416 pages 6.25 x 9.25” Rs 490 (S. Asia only)<br />
For Bourdieu, sociology is ‘a combat sport’. In this comprehensive collection he is at his<br />
combative best. ‘France’s leading sociologist, its most influential intellectual—and one of<br />
its angriest men.’—London Review of Books