In Praise of Heresy : From Socrates to Ambedkar / Ramin Jahanbegloo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jahanbegloo, Ramin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heresy.

Critical thinking.

Heretics.

Ambedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji), 1891-1956.

Ambedkar, B. R.

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.

Camus, Albert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxvi, 98 pages)

Other Title:

In Praise of Heresy

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Since the time of Socrates to the present, public intellectuals have aligned themselves with the heretical imperative by questioning organized power and opened up social, political, economic and cultural life to public scrutiny and accountability. This effort is described in this volume through the self-examined lives of philosophers such as Socrates and José Ortega y Gasset, Albert Camus and Yukio Mishima. They serve to elaborate the context of the author's bold claim that B.R. Ambedkar, the central character of the author's research, is the boldest heretic in Indian political history.

Contents:

I Against The Tide

1 Thinking as Heretics

2 Heresy and Rebellion

3 Aestheticizing Heresy

II The Heretical Indian

4 Ambedkar and the Heretical Imperative

5 The Art of Anti-conformism

6 Ambedkar's Philosophy of Heresy.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-099296-4