India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference: The Apeiron of Relations

ISBN-13: 9780367544607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 272 str.

D. Venkat Rao

Opis

This book examines the question of cultural difference and living with diversity in India and Europe, with a focus on the key differences in understanding essential categories of learning such as art, nature, human, relation, action, literature,  philosophy, and humanities.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Genealogies of Euro-Analysis  2. Contextures of Learning: Darshana and Theoria in Mnemopraxial Traditions  3. Alithic Modes and Lithic Conceptions: Aporias of Indian Cultural Form(ation)s  4. Inquiring Ethos and the Enigma of Difference: Broaching the Mnemocultures of Humanities. Conclusion: Moving On… Bahirmukha

O autorze

D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. Among his publications are the books Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures (Routledge, 2018); Cultures of Memory in South Asia (2014); and In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999). He has translated into English a Telugu intellectual autobiography called The Last Brahmin (2007, 2012, 2017) and has designed several courses interfacing areas of culture, technology and literary and cultural studies.