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On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 3
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This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the
twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details,
among other things, his engagement with the oeuvres of Martin
Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It shows how
Mehta's sense of cross-cultural philosophy and religious thought
were affected by these engagements, and maps the two key
contributions Mehta made to the sum of human ideas. First, Mehta
outlined what the author dubs a 'postcolonial hermeneutics' that
uses the 'ethnotrope' of the pilgrim to challenge the philosophical
hermeneutic emphasis on supplementation and augmentation. For
Mehta, the hermeneutic encounter ruptures, rather than supplements,
the self. Secondly, Mehta extended this concept of hermeneutics to
interrogate the Hindu tradition, arriving at the concept of the
'negative messianic'. In contrast to Derrida's emphasis on the 'one
to come', Mehta shows how the Hindu bhakti model represents the
very opposite, that is, the 'withdrawn other, ' identifying thereby
the ethical pitfalls of deconstructivism's emphasis on the
messianic tradition. This is the only full-length study in English
of this high-profile Hindu philosopher.
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