desire and liberation

Biography of a Text by Vaddera Chandidas

(Late) Dr. Vaddera Chandidas (Autor)

Professor A. Raghuramaraju (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

228 Seiten

2018
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-948193-4 (ISBN)

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In Desire and Liberation Vaddera Chandidas creates a new metaphysical system. He bases this new system on earlier Indian traditions of sutra literature. The author rejects major convergences in philosophy from both India and the West, especially on the ontological primacy of non-being that results in permanence, which he posits as a mere project of the intellect. He is especially opposed to the idea of permanence, which renders unreliable anything that is not permanent but changing. Thus, desire, which is not permanent, is marginalized. Chandidas points out that contradictoriness is the structural 'tinge' of reality. Therefore, in his philosophy all that is claimed to be permanent is marginal and derivative of the intellect.

A. Raghuramaraju has curated and edited this volume, which proposes a major breakthrough in the field of philosophical studies. The volume reproduces not only Desire and Liberation and Kalidas Bhattacharyya's introduction to it, but also the letters that Bhattacharyya wrote to Chandidas, and Chandidas's own commentary on his text.

Vaddera Chandidas taught philosophy at Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati. His novels Himajwala (Flame of Snow) and Anukshanikam (Eternal Momentariness), and his short story collection Chikatlonunchi Cheekatloki (From Darkness into Darkness) set new trends in Telugu literature. A Raghuramaraju (ed.) is presently guest faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, India. His publications include Modern Frames and Premodern Themes in Indian Philosophy: Border, Self and the Other (2017), Debating Vivekananda: A Reader (as editor, 2015), and Philosophy and India: Ancestors, Outsiders and Predecessors (2014).

Introduction: Life and Times of a Modern Indian
Philosophical Text
A. Raghuramaraju

desire and liberation: The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology
Vaddera Chandidas

desire and liberation: The Nuances of Cosmicontology
in a Dialogic Form
Vaddera Chandidas

Introduction to Vaddera Chandidas's desire and liberation:
The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology, 1975
Kalidas Bhattacharyya

Letters from Kalidas Bhattacharyya to Vaddera Chandidas

Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	29.09.2018
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 226 mm
Gewicht	360 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
ISBN-10	0-19-948193-8 / 0199481938
ISBN-13	978-0-19-948193-4 / 9780199481934
Zustand	Neuware