1st Edition
India, Habermas and the Normative Structure of Public Sphere
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Indian Political Theory & Search for a Normative Public Sphere
2 The Idea of Public Sphere in Habermas
3 Indian Engagements with Habermas: Why Public Sphere?
4 The Indian Situation as an Exception to Habermas
5 Deuniversal Rationality and the Imagined Indian Public Sphere
Endnote
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Muzaffar Ali is Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. He briefly taught at Hindu College, University of Delhi (2016). His focus in research and teaching is on social and political philosophy and contemporary Indian philosophy with an emphasis on the idea of the public sphere and its normative implications. He has been a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholar and has published in international journals of repute such as the Economic and Political Weekly, JICPR, Sophia, Culture and Dialogue and Journal of World Philosophies. Apart from journal publications, he has a co-edited volume, The Imbecile’s Guide to Public Philosophy (2021) with Routledge.
