Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj

Dialogical Meditations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-93-5388-106-1
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj discusses Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi’s respective intellectual contributions and speculates how one might take forward the work of the two persons who were among the most brilliant minds of our times.

Both Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi emphasized freedom and autonomy of thought and upheld the importance of samvada, somewhat inadequate in its English translation as dialogue. And both of them were philosophers concerned with how philosophy might seek its svaraj, free from the orientalist hold of the religious, the colonial crippling of indigenous languages and institutions and the structures and categories of un-freedom that continue to haunt inhabitants of West and non-West. Philosophy must involve samvada—an open dialogue and intimate encounter between self and other. Both philosophers experimented with these concepts and were enormously creative.

This book is a testament not only to the core values of philosophy, but also to how these values can be carried forward by new weaves of tradition and modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mayaram, Shail

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Peter Ronald deSouza
Introduction - Shail Mayaram

I: OF LOVE, LIBERATION AND LILA
Figure and Ground: Reflections on Two Exemplary Indian thinkers - Fred Dallmayr
Ramlila: A Metaphysics of the Everyday - Anuradha Veeravalli
‘Falling in Love with a Civilization’: A Tribute to Daya Krishna, the Thinker - Bettina Bäumer
II: THE IDEA OF SWARAJ: ASYMMETRIES OF POWER, KNOWLEDGE AND ALTERNATIVE, ETHICAL POLITICS
Gandhi and the Stoics: Squaring Emotional Detachment with Universal Love and Political Action - Richard Sorabji
A Still, Small Voice - Tridip Suhrud
Learning to Converse - Michael McGhee
III: MODES OF SAMVAD
Towards a New Hermeneutic of Self-inquiry - Devasia M Antony
On Philosophy as Samvada: Thinking with Daya Krishna - Daniel Raveh
The Dialogue Must Continue - Mustafa Khawaja
IV: LANGUAGE, SELFHOOD AND PHILOSOPHY
The Virtue of Being a Self - Bijoy H. Boruah
Daya Krishna’s ‘Presuppositionless Philosophy’: Sublimity as the Source of Value and Knowledge - Prasenjit Biswas
The Moral and the Spiritual: A Study of the Self and the Not-self in Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi - Ramesh C Pradhan
On Missing and Seeming to Miss: Some Philosophical Ramblings on the Subjective/Objective Distinction in Memory of Daya Krishna - Arindam Chakrabarti
Dialogical Investigations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi - Probal Dasgupta
V: RE-THINKING ISSUES IN THE ARTS/ETHICS/SCIENCE/MATHEMATICS
The Applicability of Indian Aesthetic Theory of Rasa to the Visual Arts: A Rejoinder to Daya Krishna’s Article, ‘Rasa—The Bane of Indian Aesthetics’ - Neelima Vashistha
The Harmony Principle - C K Raju
On Mathematics and the Physical World - S Lokanathan
VI: ON LIFE AND DEATH AND DYING
Matricide and Martyrdom: Cancer and Karm in the Kalyug - Shankar Ramaswami
Afterword
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mayaram, Shail
Shail Mayaram is professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Her publications include Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins (2003); Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity (1997); co-authored with Ashis Nandy, Shikha Trivedi, Achyut Yagnik, Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and the Fear of Self (1995); co-edited with Ajay Skaria and M. S. S. Pandian, Subaltern Studies: Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History, vol. 12 (2005); edited, The Other Global City (2009).