Ebook: Calibrating Western philosophy for India : Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, Bergson and Vaddera Chandidas
Author: Raghuramaraju A.
- Tags: Philosophy Comparative, Philosophy -- India -- History -- 20th century, East and West, PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General, PHILOSOPHY -- General, PHILOSOPHY -- Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General, Philosophy, India
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Routledge
- City: India.
- Language: English
- epub
"This book proposes a new way of reading modern western philosophers in the Indian context. It questions the colonial methodology or the practice of importing theories of western philosophy, and shows how their unmediated applications are often incongruent, irrelevant and unproductive in local frameworks. The author shows an alternative route to approaching philosophers from the West -- Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, Read more...