Calibrating Western Philosophy for India: Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, Bergson and Vaddera Chandidas

ISBN-13: 9780367731892 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 102 str.

A. Raghuramaraju

Opis

This book proposes a new way of reading modern western philosophers in the Indian context. It shows an alternative route to approaching philosophers from the West — Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari and Bergson — by bending and reassembling aspects of their ideas and theories to relate with the diversity and complexity of Indian society.

Spis treści

Introduction
1. Rousseau: the founder of the institution of the old age home
2. Derrida and the two forms of the word: writing West and speaking India
3. Bending Deleuze and Guattari for India: major and minor literatures
4. From Bergson to Vaddera Chandidas: excavating the relation between non-being and permanence
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

O autorze

A. Raghuramaraju is Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. His books include Debates in Indian Philosophy: Classical, Colonial and Contemporary (2006), Enduring Colonialism: Classical Presences and Modern Absences in Indian Philosophy (2009), Modernity in Indian Social Theory (2011), Philosophy and India: Ancestors, Outsiders and Predecessor (2013), and Modern Frames and Premodern Themes in Indian Philosophy: Border, Self and the Other (2017). He has edited Debating Gandhi: A Reader (2006), Debating Vivekananda: A Reader (2014), Ramchandra Gandhi: The Man and his Philosophy (2013), The Seven Sages: Selected Essays by Ramchandra Gandhi (2015), and Desire and Liberation by Vaddera Chandidas: Biography of a Text (2018). He also co-edited Grounding Morality: Freedom, Knowledge and Plurality of Cultures (2010).