Calibrating Western philosophy for India : Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, Bergson and Vaddera Chandidas /
This book proposes a new way of reading modern western philosophers in the Indian context. It questions the colonial methodology or the practice of importing theories of western philosophy, and shows how their unmediated applications are often incongruent, irrelevant and unproductive in local framew...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Rousseau: the founder of the institution of old age home
- Derrida and the two forms of the word: writing West and speaking India
- Bending Deleuze and Guattari for India: major and minor literatures
- From Bergson to Vaddera Chandidas: excavating the relation between non-being and permanence.