India and its intellectual traditions : of love, Advaita, power, and other things /
"India and Its Intellectual Traditions, 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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Backwaters Collective on metaphysics and politics (Series) ;
III. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "India and Its Intellectual Traditions, 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 as well to reinitiating metaphysics into politics, and similarly the collective's enduring interest in Narayana Guru is reflected in at least three chapters. Though 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"--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191994616 0191994618 9780198887171 0198887175 9780198887188 0198887183 |