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Books > Philosophy > Non-Western philosophy
'The Art of War' is as relevant to today's warriors in business,
politics, and everyday life as it once was to the warlords of
ancient China. It is one of the most useful books ever written on
leading with wisdom, an essential tool for modern corporate
warriors battling to gain the advantage in the boardroom, and for
anyone struggling to gain the upper hand in confrontations and
competitions.
Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy introduces
contemporary Indian philosophy as a unique philosophical genre
through the writings of one its most significant exponents, Daya
Krishna (1924-2007). It surveys Daya Krishna's main intellectual
projects: rereading classical Indian sources anew, his famous
Samvad Project, and his attempt to formulate a new social and
political theory for India. Conceived as a dialogue with Daya
Krishna and contemporaries, including his interlocutors,
Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, Badrinath Shukla, Ramchandra Gandhi,
and Mukund Lath, this book is an engaging introduction to anyone
interested in contemporary Indian philosophy and in the
thought-provoking writings of Daya Krishna.
Why were Chinese and Indian ways of thinking excluded from European
philosophy in early modern times? This is a study of what happened
to the European understanding of China and India between the late
16th century and the first half of the 18th century. Investigating
the description of these two Asian civilizations during a century
and a half of histories of philosophy, this book accounts for the
change of historiographical paradigms, from Neoplatonic philosophia
perennis and Spinozistic atheism to German Eclecticism. Uncovering
the reasons for inserting or excluding Chinese and Indian ways of
thinking within the field of Philosophy in early modern times, it
reveals the origin of the Eurocentric understanding of Philosophy
as a Greek-European prerogative. By highlighting how this narrowing
and exclusion of non-Western ways of thought was a result of
conviction of superiority and religious prejudice, this book
provides a new way of thinking about the place of Asian traditions
among World philosophies.
Gandhi and Philosophy presents a breakthrough in philosophy by
foregrounding modern and scientific elements in Gandhi's thought,
animating the dazzling materialist concepts in his writings and
opening philosophy to the new frontier of nihilism. This
scintillating work breaks with the history of Gandhi scholarship,
removing him from the postcolonial and Hindu-nationalist axis and
disclosing him to be the enemy that the philosopher dreads and
needs. Naming the congealing systematicity of Gandhi's thoughts
with the Kantian term hypophysics, Mohan and Dwivedi develop his
ideas through a process of reason that awakens the possibilities of
concepts beyond the territorial determination of philosophical
traditions. The creation of the new method of criticalisation - the
augmentation of critique - brings Gandhi's system to its exterior
and release. It shows the points of intersection and infiltration
between Gandhian concepts and such issues as will, truth, violence,
law, anarchy, value, politics and metaphysics and compels us to
imagine Gandhi's thought anew.
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