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India and the unthinkable : backwaters collective on metaphysics and politics / Vinay Lal and Roby Rajan.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metaphysics--Political aspects--India.
- Metaphysics.
- India--Politics and government.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xlvii, 228 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Backwaters collective on metaphysics and politics
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- A remarkable but little commented on feature of the various discourses on India circulating today is the near total absence of its metaphysical heritage as a source of illumination into our contemporary condition. The central claim of this book is that this heritage has an autonomy of its own that is not subsumable under any other purportedly larger concept; and that furthermore, if we ever hope to break out of our thralldom to the reigning hegemonic - but rather bankrupt - vision of humanity's future, we must squarely confront the full consequences of this fateful evasion of the heritage.
- Contents:
- Is metaphysics political? / Sundar Sarukkai
- A disowned father of the nation in India: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and the demonic and the seductive in Indian nationalism / Ashis Nandy
- Backwater disclosure: ontological politics and the dialectics of intercommunality / Roby Rajan
- The politics and metaphysics of intellectual practices: Ashis Nandy and U.R. Ananthamurthy in conversation / edited and annotated by Vinay Lal
- 'A marriage made in heaven'? How metaphysics transforms politics: a case study / Julius Lipner
- The transmutation of metaphysics and politics in literature / N. Manu Chakravarthy
- Moving in the double bind: reconfiguring reflective and creative traditions today / D. Venkat Rao
- 'Unarv': the poetic factor in metaphysics and politics / M.C. Dinakaran and Anish Damodaran.
- Notes:
- This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-908756-3
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