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What Is We?

What Is We?

Srinivasan, Ragini Tharoor

Paperback

Series: Philosophy: The New Basics

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 178821837X
ISBN13: 9781788218375
Publisher: Agenda Publishing
Published: Nov 6 2025
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The concept we is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of who we are, leaving its basic conceptual operations undertheorized.

In What is We? Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan argues that we is not a collective to belong to or be excluded from, nor is it a specific group to be identified. Rather, we functions as a method - one that organizes inclusion and exclusion, communion and isolation, coercion and liberation, division and incorporation, forgetting and remembering.

Across ten linked chapters, the book unfolds social, historical, political, grammatical, linguistic, literary, and personal responses to its titular question. By seeing we as a method for enacting, apprehending, contesting, and instrumentalizing boundaries, it invites us to confront the challenge of failure, embrace the possibility of impossibility, and acknowledge the hallucinatory nature of the universal.

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