trade. ‘Hartman’s mix of history and memoir has the feel of a good novel, told with charm and passion, and should reach out to anyone contemplating the meaning of identity, belonging and homeland.’—Publishers Weekly
The Business of Words André Schiffrin ISBN 9788189059477 Paperback 296 pages 5.5 x 8.5” Rs 295 (S. Asia only) A passionate account of the collapsing standards of contemporary publishing, across the world. ‘Schiffrin’s careful tracing of the growth of independent and committed publishing holds many lessons for India.’—Urvashi Butalia, publisher, Zubaan
Un/Common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference Kamala Visweswaran ISBN 9788189059415 Paperback 354 pages 6 x 9.25” Rs 450 (S. Asia only) This book offers an incising critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology. ‘A major intervention in cultural studies, anthropology, and feminist and South Asian studies.’—R. Radhakrishnan, author of History, the Human, and the World Between
Imagining a Place for Buddhism Anne E. Monius ISBN 9788189059194 Paperback 272 pages 5.5 x 8.5” Rs 350 (S. Asia only) In this pioneering study, focusing on two extant Buddhist Tamil texts, Anne Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard Divinity School, sheds light on the role of literature and literary culture in the formation, articulation and evolution of Tamil Buddhist religious identity and community.
Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974–75 Michel Foucault ISBN 9788189059224 Paperback 400 pages 5.5 x 8.5” Rs 490 (S. Asia only) In the lectures comprising Abnormal, Foucault shows how and why defining ‘abnormality’ and ‘normality’ were prerogatives of power in the nineteenth century, shaping the institutions—from the prison system to the family—meant to deal in particular with ‘monstrosity’.
The Future of the Image Jacques Rancière ISBN 9788189059231 Paperback 160 pages 5 x 7.5” Rs 200 (S. Asia only) The author offers a fascinating new concept of the image in contemporary art, showing how art and politics have always been intrinsically intertwined. ‘Rancière’s writings offer one of the few conceptualisations of how we are to continue to resist.’—Slavoj Žižek.
Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action Pierre Bourdieu ISBN 9788189059248 Paperback 416 pages 6.25 x 9.25” Rs 490 (S. Asia only) For Bourdieu, sociology is ‘a combat sport’. In this comprehensive collection he is at his combative best. ‘France’s leading sociologist, its most influential intellectual—and one of its angriest men.’—London Review of Books 42