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Assured Self, Restive Self: Encounters with Crisis

Assured Self, Restive Self: Encounters with Crisis

Chakravarty, Prasanta

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ISBN10: 9354359922
ISBN13: 9789354359927
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India
Published: Sep 30 2023
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

The book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times.

A 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.

Through 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

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