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India and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things : Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics III by Vinay Lal (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100198887167
ISBN-139780198887164
eBay Product ID (ePID)15061949326
Product Key Features
Number of Pages424 Pages
Publication NameIndia and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things : Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics III
LanguageEnglish
SubjectAsia / General, General
Publication Year2024
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, History
AuthorVinay Lal
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight23 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal306.0954
Table Of Content1. The Social Representation of Power in India: A History in Fragments2. Love in Future Tense3. Cities of the Mind: Lost Cities and Their Inhabitants4. The Uncommon through the Common: Of the Ramayana Performative Traditions5. The Kannada Intellectual Tradition: Transcending Dichotomies and Binaries6. Social and Political Role-play through the Theology of the Hindu Icon: An Exercise in Versatility7. What 'Bahena' Saw8. The Saddle of Experience: Adhyatma, Duality and Practical Knowledge9. Interpreting Catastrophes: God, Karma, and Martyrdom10. Backwater Infinitude: Pastness, Proprietariness, and the Symbolic Economy of Rupture11. Othering the Same: Narayana Guru's Engaged Advaita12. Beyond Binaries: Sreenarayana and the Political13. Ambedkar, Tarde, and 'Castes in India': Six Remarks14. Nature and Evil: Gandhi and Ambedkar on Caste and Untouchability
SynopsisThe book, the third volume to emerge from the enterprise known as 'The Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics', attempts to further the collective's ambition to put into question the certitudes of conventional social science discourse, decolonize the dominant knowledge frameworks, and understand how the intellectual and cultural resources of Indian civilization may be deployed to think both, about some problems in contemporary politics and culture, and to introduce greater plurality into the world of modern knowledge systems. Some of the collective's members remain deeply committed to reinitiating metaphysics into politics, and similarly, the collective's enduring interest in Narayana Guru is reflected in at least three chapters. Although engagement with Gandhi and Ambedkar is a familiar part of the Indian intellectual landscape, other chapters on offer pivot around histories of power, performative traditions, and modes of worship. Unlike the scholarship that is now the norm, organized around a distinct theme, this volume exhibits a more daring approach to India's intellectual traditions, traversing the world of Kannada intellectuals, the Kashmir Shaiva tradition, a Marathi Bhakti poet, and a contemporary Indian philosopher, as much as conceptual ideas drawn from a wide array of Indian texts and experiences., The book is a wide-ranging inquiry into Indian intellectual, cultural, and political traditions; with discussions on subjects and topics of great interest in India today, including caste, the idea and politics of history, power, and love.
LC Classification NumberDS428.2
