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India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference - The Apeiron of Relations (Hardcover)
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India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference - The Apeiron of Relations (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Humanities Across Cultures
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This volume critically engages with the question of cultural
difference and the idea of living with diversity in the context of
India and Europe. It looks at certain essential European categories
of learning such as art, nature, the human, literature, relation,
philosophy, and the humanities and analyses texts from Sanskrit
language (through Telugu resources) to argue that categories like
prakriti, loka, jati, dharma, karma, sahitya, kala,etc. cannot be
conflated with conceptual formations such as nature, world, caste,
religion, (sanctioned) action, literature and art respectively. The
book questions and unravels the efficacy of European concepts,
theories and interpretive frames in understanding Indian reflective
traditions and cultural forms. It also lays the groundwork for
reorienting teaching and research in universities in the humanities
on the basis of key cultural differences. By focusing on major
themes in the humanities discourse and their limitations, the work
engages with the writings of Heidegger, Derrida and Agamben, among
others, from radically new vantage points of Sanskrit-Indian
reflective traditions, and challenges prevailing ideas about Indian
art, literature and culture. Part of the Critical Humanities Across
Cultures series, this book will be an essential read for scholars
and researchers of Indian languages and literature, comparative
literature, art and aesthetics, postcolonial studies, cultural and
heritage studies, philosophy, political philosophy, comparative
philosophy, Sanskrit studies, India studies, South Asian studies,
Global South studies, and for those working on education in the
humanities/human sciences.
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