India and the unthinkable : backwaters collective on metaphysics and politics / Vinay Lal and Roby Rajan.
2016
B5132
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Title
India and the unthinkable : backwaters collective on metaphysics and politics / Vinay Lal and Roby Rajan.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780199087563 (electronic book)
Published
New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
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B5132
Dewey Decimal Classification
110.954
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. The central claim of this book is that this heritage has an autonomy of its own that is not subsumable under any other purportedly larger concept; and that furthermore, if we ever hope to break out of our thralldom to the reigning hegemonic - but rather bankrupt - vision of humanity's future, we must squarely confront the full consequences of this fateful evasion of the heritage.
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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. The central claim of this book is that this heritage has an autonomy of its own that is not subsumable under any other purportedly larger concept; and that furthermore, if we ever hope to break out of our thralldom to the reigning hegemonic - but rather bankrupt - vision of humanity's future, we must squarely confront the full consequences of this fateful evasion of the heritage.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 28, 2016).
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Lal, Vinay, editor.
Rajan, Roby, editor.
Rajan, Roby, editor.
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