Critical Humanities from India
Routledge India (Verlag)
978-1-138-74304-5 (ISBN)
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.
D. Venkat Rao is Professor of English Literature, School of English Literary Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. In addition to books in English and Telugu, he has published several articles in national and international journals. His recent work is Cultures of Memory in South Asia (2014). His other publications include In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999), a translation of Ashis Nandy’s The Intimate Enemy into Telugu. He has also translated into English, a Telugu intellectual autobiography entitled The Last Brahmin (2012). He has co-edited Reflections on Literature, Criticism and Theory (2004) and an anthology of essays on U. R. Ananthamurthy’s Samskara. His interests include literary and cultural studies, image studies, comparative thought, translation, and mnemocultures. He has designed several courses interfacing culture, technology, and literary studies.
List of Figures. Foreword. Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Crossing (the) Legacies 1. Education and Structures of Moral Formation: The Limits of Liberal Education in India 2. In-discipline(s): Diversity, Disciplinarity and the Humanities 3. Sites of Learning and Intellectual Parasitism: The Case for New Humanities 4. Why Communalism is an Indian problem: The Relationship between Communalism and Hinduism in Colonial Discourse 5. Sacerdotal Violence and the Caste System: The Long Shadow of Christian-Orientalism 6. Caste as an Impediment in the Journey of a Bhakta: Lingayat Vachanas, Jati and Adhyatma 7. River Literacy and the Challenge of a Rain Terrain 8. Accents of Memory: Critical Humanities and the Question of Inheritance 9. Indian Culture and its Social Security System 10. The Politics of Knowledge, Here and Now: A Conversation with Ashis Nandy. Glossary. Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.04.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 10 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 453 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-74304-6 / 1138743046 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-74304-5 / 9781138743045 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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