Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self

by Steven Parish

Overview

-- Owen M. Lynch, New York University

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231084390
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	10/13/1994
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Leopold Haimson is professor emeritus in the Department of History at Columbia University. He is the author of The Making of Three Russian Revolutionaries and the classic Russian Marxists and the Origins of Bolshevism, among other works. He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction by David McDonald
Part I: Lenin, Martov and the issue of power
Part II: The workers'movement after lena: the dynamics of labor unrest in the wake of the lena goldfields massacre (april 1912—July 1914)
Notes Appendix I.Lenin's April Theses Appendix II.Summary of Major Findings of Quantitative Analysis of Social Characteristics of Participants in Post-Lena Strike Waves

Editorial Reviews

Argues that moral consciousness is constructed through engagement with cultural meanings and practices rather than solely by internal psychological development, and applies the approach to people in Bhaktapur, the most traditionally Hindu city in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. A contribution to cultural psychology, an emerging discipline that explores how culture interacts with mind, self, and emotion. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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