Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Inquiries from India

ISBN-13: 9780367730741 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 182 str.

K. V. Cybil

Opis

This book explores the political and philosophical underpinnings of exclusion and social injustice in India. Going beyond the legal framework of justice, the essays in the volume reassemble the social from the margins and challenge Eurocentric systems of knowledge which have dominated discourse on social injustice.

Spis treści

Introduction. 1. Ambedkar and Gandhi: exploring aporias in social justice and practices. 2. Ambedkar and other immortals: a note on comparative politics and incomparable events. 3. Parallel praxis: history-domination-resistance-ideology-theory. 4. The role of the research subject in Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action. 5. Philosophy in practice: Nataraja Guru reading Narayana Guru. 6. Victim(s), parasites and creative evolution: Narayana Guru and anthropology of vision. Index.

O autorze

K. V. Cybil is Associate Professor, Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. He has published articles with the Economic and Political Weekly and the NMML New Delhi on Indian practices of social exclusion and injustices. Before joining IIT BHU, he also taught at Ambedkar University Delhi, University of Calicut (Christ College), University of Delhi, India and Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.