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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.
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.
The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally
addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man,
crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human
reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The
university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this
humanist account. This European humanistic legacy, which is little
more than Christian anthropology, barely received any questioning
from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context, this
volume attempts to unravel the 'barely secularized heritage' of
Europe (Derrida's phrase) and its fatal consequences in other
cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in
which the question of being human (along with non-human others)
today from heterogeneous cultural 'backgrounds' can be undertaken.
The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent
upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from
non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently
needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show
devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely
in such a context that this collection of essays on critical
humanities affirms, 'without alibi', the urgency of collective
reflection and innovative research across the traditional
disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on
the one hand and Asian, African and European cultural formations on
the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than
communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long
survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural)
habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the
biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet. Topical
and timely, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and
teachers of cultural theory, literary studies, philosophy, cultural
geography, legal studies, sociology, history, performance studies,
environmental studies, caste and communalism studies, postcolonial
theory, India studies, and education.
This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and
traditions of India. It engages with several significant works from
the Sanskrit tradition and emphasizes the need to move beyond
colonial and postcolonial engagements with the enduring cultural
pasts of India. The chapters are grouped in three main parts:
accented rhythms, dispersed mnemoscapes and inventive iterations.
It addresses questions such as: what enabled cultural communication
across very divergent geographical, temporal, locational contexts
and among different cultural formations of India over millennia?
What is this shareable impulse that pulsates across the domains of
dance, sculpture, painting, poetry, dharma, music, medicine, the
lore of rivers and the epics? It explains how modern Indian
languages and especially their creative and reflective nodes are
unthinkable without the intricately woven textures of these
interfaces and their responsive receptions. This book is of
interest to philosophers, humanities students, researchers and
professors as well as people interested in exploring alternatives
to European traditions of thought without an alibi.
The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally
addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man,
crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human
reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The
university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this
humanist account. This European humanistic legacy, which is little
more than Christian anthropology, barely received any questioning
from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context, this
volume attempts to unravel the 'barely secularized heritage' of
Europe (Derrida's phrase) and its fatal consequences in other
cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in
which the question of being human (along with non-human others)
today from heterogeneous cultural 'backgrounds' can be undertaken.
The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent
upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from
non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently
needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show
devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely
in such a context that this collection of essays on critical
humanities affirms, 'without alibi', the urgency of collective
reflection and innovative research across the traditional
disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on
the one hand and Asian, African and European cultural formations on
the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than
communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long
survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural)
habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the
biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet. Topical
and timely, this book will be useful to scholars, researchers and
teachers of cultural theory, literary studies, philosophy, cultural
geography, legal studies, sociology, history, performance studies,
environmental studies, caste and communalism studies, postcolonial
theory, India studies, and education.
This book focuses on the cohering elements across various texts and
traditions of India. It engages with several significant works from
the Sanskrit tradition and emphasizes the need to move beyond
colonial and postcolonial engagements with the enduring cultural
pasts of India. The chapters are grouped in three main parts:
accented rhythms, dispersed mnemoscapes and inventive iterations.
It addresses questions such as: what enabled cultural communication
across very divergent geographical, temporal, locational contexts
and among different cultural formations of India over millennia?
What is this shareable impulse that pulsates across the domains of
dance, sculpture, painting, poetry, dharma, music, medicine, the
lore of rivers and the epics? It explains how modern Indian
languages and especially their creative and reflective nodes are
unthinkable without the intricately woven textures of these
interfaces and their responsive receptions. This book is of
interest to philosophers, humanities students, researchers and
professors as well as people interested in exploring alternatives
to European traditions of thought without an alibi.
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