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Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities

by Prasanta Chakravarty
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789388134248
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 332
  • Original Price: INR 1299.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 1250 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General

Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities addresses a serious lacuna in humanities studies. It affirms our commitment to wonder and adventure in living by confronting the subtext that lies within the manifold worldly, social and political vicissitudes and tribulations. The essays in this volume speak to our times and make sense of the idea of temporality in general by using wonder as an inclusive metaphor, which engulfs fortitude, anguish, joy, providence, submission, precariousness and revulsion. Wonder could lead to curiosity to inspiration to doubt to questioning to indignation to seeking of justice.
The book offers a benchmark in thinking about why we must take literature and art seriously in times of great political turmoil. It affirms that the shape and contour of literary studies shall depend on how the coming generation maintains a delicate balance among inspiration, doubt and faith.

Prasanta Chakravarty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delhi and the editor of the web journal Humanities Underground. His most recent work is The Creature: In Power and Pain (2022). His other works include Like Parchment in the Fire: Literature and Radicalism in the English Civil War (2006), a monograph on Early Modern radical heretic culture; The Opulence of Existence: Essays on Aesthetics and Politics (2016), a collection of essays on literary forms and our political predicament; and Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities: Between the Tick and the Tock (2019). He has edited three critical anthologies: Shrapnel Minima, Writings from Humanities Underground (2014), Populism and Its Limits: After Articulation (2020) and Assured Self, Restive Self: Encounters with Crisis (2023). He has also co-edited Machiavelli Then and Now (2021) together with Sukanta Chaudhuri. He has published four volumes of poetry.

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