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Author Gupta, Dipankar, 1949-

Title Learning to forget : the anti-memoirs of modernity / Dipankar Gupta
Published New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 258 pages)
Contents Project modernity : intersubjectivity as iso-ontology -- Learning to forget : the anti-memoirs of modernity -- The domesticated public : modernity and the regime of injunctions -- The everyday aesthete : an excursus on modern taste -- Creating a 'minimum set of resemblances' : normative interventions for iso-ontology -- Meeting 'felt aspirations' : for a new paradigm of development -- The burden of memory : the challenge before nation-states -- Between ethnicity and communalism : memory against citizenship -- Dying to remember : martyrdom and failed modernity -- Conditions for forgetting : intersubjectivity as modernity's logic
Summary Challenge to modernity thru generating intersubjectivity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-248) and index
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Subject Intersubjectivity.
Memory -- Social aspects
Culture -- Philosophy
Philosophy and social sciences.
Culture -- Philosophy
Intersubjectivity
Memory -- Social aspects
Philosophy and social sciences
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199081820
0199081824