ABSTRACT
This book explores the idea that alternatives to our present condition are available in the present, such that a search for alternatives must involve rigorous study of some of its central texts, events, and thinkers.
Through engagement with selected modern thinkers, texts, and events, it imagines a different future from the position of the current postcolonial moment, indicating the possibilities that emerge from the present and which shape contemporary radical thinking.
An invitation to imagine a possible future marked with alternative possibilities of conducting struggles, and living through contentions and social restructuring, it will appeal to scholars with interests in social and political theory, political philosophy, colonialism and postcolonialism, and historical materialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section One|58 pages
Social Transformation and the Space and Time of Nation
part Section Two|38 pages
The Problematic of Population and Power in Transformative Politics
part Section Three|36 pages
Two Universalisms
part Section Four|34 pages
Contentions and Antagonisms as Template of Alternative Thinking
part Section Five|28 pages
Beyond the Political, Imaginaries of Other Kinds
part Section Six|87 pages
Event as a Congealed Site of New Possibilities