Conversations and transformations Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Social Criticism, Cultural Creativity, and the Contemporary Dialectics of Transformations	1
2	Moral Commitments and the Transformation of Politics: Kant, Gandhi and Beyond	27
3	Gandhi, Tagore, and a New Ethics of Argumentation	45
4	Literature and the Tapashya of Transformation: A Glimpse into the Creative Worlds of Chittaranjan Das	71
5	Socrates and the Pig	89
6	Universities and the Horizons of the Future	99
7	Audited Accountability and the Imperative of Responsibility: Beyond the Primacy of the Political	111
8	Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries: Creative Experiments and the Critiques of Modernity	131
9	Gender and the Overcoming of Ego	159
10	Exclusion and Integration: The Moral Struggles	173
11	Rethinking the Imperative of Responsibility: Development Ethics, Aesthetics and the Challenge of Poverity	199
12	Rethinking Human Well-Being: A Dialogue with Amartya Sen	223
13	Well-Being of Institutions: Problematic Justice and the Challenge of Transformation	245
14	Rethinking Systems as Frames of Coordination: Dialogical Intersubjectivity and Creativity of Action	275
15	Rethinking Civil Society	287
16	Civil Society and the Limits of Identity Politics	315
	The Calling of an Ethics of Servanthood	335
	Index	345