Transforming the Subjective and the Objective

Transpositional Subjectobjectivity
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-37743-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

This book introduces transpositional subjectobjectivity—a radical framework that transcends the subject-object dualism that has long constrained social scientific inquiry. Tracing debates over objectivity in social sciences from Max Weber through Michel Foucault to Amartya Sen's positional objectivity, this book offers a crucial intervention in the field, recognizing how perspective shapes observation. Moving beyond binary thinking, the chapters rethink the philosophy of science itself, exploring how subjectivity and objectivity interweave rather than oppose. Through transdisciplinary analysis drawing on philosophy, sociology, spirituality, and the arts, the book traces transpositional thinking from Plato to contemporary practice. It examines how religion, philosophy, and art have navigated the shifting contours of subjectobjectivity, offering new methodological possibilities for researchers. Essential reading for scholars and researchers of philosophy and the social sciences in general, this pioneering work cultivates innovative modes of understanding and engagement for twenty-first-century social science and humanities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giri, Ananta Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Hermeneutik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Transpositional Subjectobjecitivity: An Introduction and an Invitation; Part One: New Horizons of Visions and Practices of Transpositional Subjectobjectivity, 1. Transforming the Subjective and the Objective: Transpositional Subjectobjectivity, 2. Shifting and Eternal Contours of Subjectobectivity in the Shaping of Religion, Philosophy, and Art, 3. Transforming the Mind through Knowledge: Spinoza’s Programme for the Individual and the Calling of Transpositional Subjectobjectivity, 4. Pragmaticism and Satyagraha as Creative Praxis: Peirce, Gandhi, and Giri's “Transpositional Subjectivity”, 5. The Non-Dual Horizon of Transpositional Subjectobjectity, 6. Towards a Spiritual Age: Subjectivity and Beyond and the Calling of Transpositional Subjectobjectivity, 7. One Mind, Two Doors: Subjectivity and Objectivity in the Philosophies of Sri Aurobindo and Mou Zongsan, Part Two: New Explorations in Subjectivity, Objectivity and Transpositional Subjectobjectivity, 8. Objectivity in its Place in the Cognitive Field:A Weak-Naturalistic and Cognitive-Theoretical Exposition, 9. Transpositional Objectivity in Democracy and Media Theory and Beyond, 10. Composing the Common, The Intrusion of Gaia and the End of Science as We Knew it: Isabelle Stengers’ Critique of Predatory Cognition and Human Exceptionalism, 11. Transpositional Subjectobjectivity and Wholeness: A Buddhist Phenomenological Prelude to Overcoming the Positionality of Observation by Means of Awareness, 12. The Subject and Subjectivity of Desire: A Transpositional Consideration of Desire from the Lacanian Framework and The Bhagavad Gita, 13. From the Desiring Subjectivity to the Aporetic Subjectivity and Cultivating Pathways of Transpositional Subject-objectivity; Part Three: Transdisciplinary Explorations of Transpositional Subjectobjectivity: Anthropology, Philosophy, Linguistics, Spirituality and Beyond, 14. Transnational Community Multiplicities and the Calling of Transpositional Subjectobjectivity, 15. Transpositional Subjectobjectivity in Anthropological Analysis: Towards Transcending Polarised Discourse, 16. Hegemony to Counter Hegemony: A Possible Transpositional Approach, 17. Object-Subject as Multidimensional Form-Energy:An Embodied Meditative Epistemology, 18. Mysticism and the Question of bridging Subject-Object Duality in Joy, 19. Praxis of Entangled “Life”: Transpositional Subjectobjectivity in Sree Narayana Guru, 20. Language, Subjectivities and Trans-Cultural Dialogue, 21 Transpositional Subjectobjectivity: The Need for Novel Language Structures that Embody Interdependent Co-arising; Afterwords, Transpositional Subjectobjectivity as Dynamic Co-Creations: An Afterword, Further Reflections on Transpositional Subjectobjectivity, James and Hume on Transpositional Subjectobjectivity: An Afterword

Über Autor(innen)

Ananta Kumar Giri is the Founding Honorary Executive Trustee of Vishwaneedam Center Asian Blossoming, Puducherry and Chennai and was a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature. Giri has written, edited, co-edited and translated more than six dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998); Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations (2013); Bahudhara Barnabiva (Splendrous Beauty of the Plural, 2021);)The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (2023); Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation (Editor, 2025); Cultivating Gardens of God: A Paradigm Shift in Faith (Editor, 2025); Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy (Editor, 2024); New Works in Consciousness Corridors: Dialogues with Subhash Sharma and Creative Planetary Futures (Co-Editor, 2023);  Rethinking Media Studies: Media, Meditation and Communication (Co-Editor, 2024); Towards a Dharma of Peace Building (Co-Editor, 2023); Social Healing (2023); Cultivating Integral Development (2023); and Covid-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Responsibility (co-editor, 2025); Social Thought as Conversations: Towards a New Upanishad of Life and an Ecology of Hope (2026)