India and the unthinkable : backwaters collective on metaphysics and politics I / edited by Vinay Lal, Roby Rajan.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: xlvii, 228 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780199466863 (hbk.)
- 0199466866
- 110 IND 23 010989
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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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