Recovering the personal in politics, ethics, culture, history, and theory -- Personal in the public sphere: the politics of modernity -- Gandhi and the ethics of the personal : is personal the terroristic unity of private and public? -- Universal and cultural histories of the personal -- Toward a theory of the (new) personal -- Engaging the personal -- Personal in colonial and postcolonial modernity : from natural personality to personality of -- Organizations -- The personal in practice : charity, altruism to social work -- Epilogue: personal is not private : rewriting modernity for the last time -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author