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Author : D. Venkat Rao
Release : 2021-07-29
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference by : D. Venkat Rao
Download or read book India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference written by D. Venkat Rao. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically engages with the question of cultural difference and the idea of living with diversity in the context of India and Europe. It looks at certain essential European categories of learning such as art, nature, the human, literature, relation, philosophy, and the humanities and analyses texts from Sanskrit language (through Telugu resources) to argue that categories like prakriti, loka, jati, dharma, karma, sahitya, kala,etc. cannot be conflated with conceptual formations such as nature, world, caste, religion, (sanctioned) action, literature and art respectively. The book questions and unravels the efficacy of European concepts, theories and interpretive frames in understanding Indian reflective traditions and cultural forms. It also lays the groundwork for reorienting teaching and research in universities in the humanities on the basis of key cultural differences. By focusing on major themes in the humanities discourse and their limitations, the work engages with the writings of Heidegger, Derrida and Agamben, among others, from radically new vantage points of Sanskrit-Indian reflective traditions, and challenges prevailing ideas about Indian art, literature and culture. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Indian languages and literature, comparative literature, art and aesthetics, postcolonial studies, cultural and heritage studies, philosophy, political philosophy, comparative philosophy, Sanskrit studies, India studies, South Asian studies, Global South studies, and for those working on education in the humanities/human sciences.
Author : S. N. Balagangadhara
Release : 2021-11-25
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Cultures Differ Differently by : S. N. Balagangadhara
Download or read book Cultures Differ Differently written by S. N. Balagangadhara. This book was released on 2021-11-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a collection of essays by contemporary thinker and social scientist S.N. Balagangadhara which develop an alternative theoretical framework for a comparative study of Western and Asian cultures. These essays illustrate how ‘decolonisation of social sciences’ is a cognitive task and offer novel hypotheses about human beings and society. They demonstrate the implications of cultural difference in the study of domains such as psychology, political theory, ethics, religion, sociology, translation, law, Indology, and philosophy. The book addresses new questions in the study of Western and Indian culture and social sciences, and discusses themes like selfless morality and the moral self; knowledge and action; critical representations of Indian traditions and classical literature; law, religion and culture; translation and interpretations; and varna and social systems. Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this interdisciplinary volume will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of philosophy, philosophy of science, ethics, religious studies, postcolonial studies, sociology and social anthropology, cultural studies, literature, comparative studies and Global South studies.
Author : Krishna R. Kanchith
Release : 2023-11-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Bardic Destinies by : Krishna R. Kanchith
Download or read book Bardic Destinies written by Krishna R. Kanchith. This book was released on 2023-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of the “literary” in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of the reception of works that have had a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across time and cultures. The book grapples with three major concepts in the humanities—the literary, the philosophical/theological and the historical. It looks at Homer’s reception by Plato; Virgil’s reception by Christianity; the many responses that The Mahabharata has received over centuries and across cultures in India; and the reception of Kumaravyasa’s Kumaravyasabharata, among other works, and analyses the understanding of truth, time and history that influence the reading of these works in different times and cultural contexts. Part of the Critical Humanities across Cultures series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, history, comparative literature, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.
Author : D. VENKAT. RAO
Release : 2023-09-25
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Book Synopsis India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference by : D. VENKAT. RAO
Download or read book India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference written by D. VENKAT. RAO. This book was released on 2023-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the question of cultural difference and living with diversity in India and Europe, with a focus on the key differences in understanding essential categories of learning such as art, nature, human, relation, action, literature, philosophy, and humanities.
