02163cam a2200265 i 4500 TB12234 IN-BhIIT 20250409130923.0 230306s2023 enk ob 001 0 eng 9781032721910 (hbk.) IN-BhIIT eng 172.954 ALI/I Ali, Muzaffar Author 20280 India, habermas and the normative structure of public sphere / by Muzaffar Ali. New York : Routledge, 2023. x, 163 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Indian 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. "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"-- Political science India Philosophy. 25810 Public sphere India. 25811 Politics and culture India. 25812 TB 14696 14696 0 0 ddc 0 0 SHSSM CLIITBBS CLIITBBS 2025-02-07 31 971.25 0 172.954 ALI/I TB12234 2025-02-07 00:00:00 1295.00 2025-02-07 TB