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Indian Philosophy in English - From Renaissance to Independence (Hardcover)
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Indian Philosophy in English - From Renaissance to Independence (Hardcover)
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This book publishes, for the first time in decades, and in many
cases, for the first time in a readily accessible edition, English
language philosophical literature written in India during the
period of British rule. Bhushan's and Garfield's own essays on the
work of this period contextualize the philosophical essays
collected and connect them to broader intellectual, artistic and
political movements in India. This volume yields a new
understanding of cosmopolitan consciousness in a colonial context,
of the intellectual agency of colonial academic communities, and of
the roots of cross-cultural philosophy as it is practiced today. It
transforms the canon of global philosophy, presenting for the first
time a usable collection and a systematic study of Anglophone
Indian philosophy.
Many historians of Indian philosophy see a radical disjuncture
between traditional Indian philosophy and contemporary Indian
academic philosophy that has abandoned its roots amid
globalization. This volume provides a corrective to this common
view. The literature collected and studied in this volume is at the
same time Indian and global, demonstrating that the colonial Indian
philosophical communities were important participants in global
dialogues, and revealing the roots of contemporary Indian
philosophical thought.
The scholars whose work is published here will be unfamiliar to
many contemporary philosophers. But the reader will discover that
their work is creative, exciting, and original, and introduces
distinctive voices into global conversations. These were the
teachers who trained the best Indian scholars of the
post-Independence period. They engaged creatively both with the
classical Indian tradition and with the philosophy of the West,
forging a new Indian philosophical idiom to which contemporary
Indian and global philosophy are indebted.
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