India and the unthinkable : backwaters collective on metaphysics and politics I / edited by Vinay Lal, Roby Rajan.

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Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: xlvii, 228 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9780199466863 (hbk.)
0199466866

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DDC classification:

110 IND 23 010989

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.

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	110 IND 010989 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		010989

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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