
The Voice and the Will – Subaltern Agency : Forms and Motives
The Voice and the Will – Subaltern Agency : Forms and Motives
- Year :2002
- Pages :393
- Price :775Rs
- ISBN :81-7304-410-0
- Editor :Manohar CSH
A depth of reflection: a rigorous analytical framework takes us step by step from the most intimate assertion of dignity to social commitment via a variety of forms of discourse, dissent and protest. In so doing, through reviewing and assessing methods and concepts, the book proves an outstanding contribution to the vexing debate on the essence, means, and ends of a social knowledge worth a status of science as well accurate and relevant to the needs of social actors. It also suggests new approaches to the study of culture.
An epistemological innovation: meaningful suggestions between construction of knowledge and social action are clearly spelt out so as to dissipate the usual dilemmas of the researcher and subject’s emotional involvements. Weaving of theory, method and epistemology makes the present study a pathfinder