ISBN: 9788189487621 - redefining humanism selected essays (1 resultados)

pbk. Written during a period of tumult and gestation in India?s history the essays in this book provide an intellectual?s serious commentary on nascent nationhood What makes this collection interesting is not just its historical value but also its very evident contemporary relevance Rare is the mind that can look critically at the present and read available signs to organize and project a picture of the future Rarer still is the ability to pinpoint the exact issues that will define the grounds of national debate over the next half century Written during the 1930s and 40s these essays view problems of communal division economic disparity social injustice neocolonialism and disunity in the Left with both an intellectual and a human eye Mukerji sets forth a new kind of humanism reflecting an understanding of troubled times and indicating ways of possible resolution 110 pp.…