02088cam a2200241 i 4500001000800000003000900008005001700017008004100034020002500075040001300100041000800113082001900121100002700140245008500167260003400252300003200286504005100318505028800369520108800657650004201745650002601787650003301813TB12234IN-BhIIT20250409130923.0230306s2023    enk     ob    001 0 eng    a9781032721910 (hbk.)  aIN-BhIIT  aeng00a172.954bALI/I1 aAli, Muzaffar eAuthor10aIndia, habermas and the normative structure of public sphere /cby Muzaffar Ali.  aNew York :bRoutledge,c2023.  ax, 163 p. :bill. ;c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIndian political theory and the search for a normative public sphere -- The idea of public sphere in Habermas -- Indian engagements with Habermas: why public sphere? -- The Indian situation as an exception to Habermas -- Deuniversal rationality and the imagined Indian public sphere.  a"The book examines how the contemporary Indian situation poses a strict theoretical challenge to Habermas's theorization of the public sphere and employs the method of samvāda to critically analyze and dissect its universalist claims. It invites the reader to consider the possibility of imagining a normative Indian public sphere that is embedded in the Indian context-in a native and not nativist sense-to get past the derivative language of philosophical and political discourses prevalent within Indian academia. The book proposes that the dynamic cooperative space between Indian political theory and contemporary Indian philosophy is effectively suited to theorize the native idea of the Indian public sphere. It underlines the normative need for a natively theorized Indian public sphere to further the multilayered democratization of public spheres within diverse communities that constitute Indian society. The book will be a key read for contemporary studies in philosophy, political theory, sociology, postcolonial theory, history, and media and communication studies"-- 0aPolitical sciencezIndiaxPhilosophy. 0aPublic spherezIndia. 0aPolitics and culturezIndia.