Interpreting Bhakti Tradition Through Subaltern Postcolonial Lens
The book investigates the bhakti beliefs and practices of the subaltern Kabirpanth community in comparison with the nirguna bhakti thought
Science and Theology Since Copernicus: The Search for Understanding
A textbook surveying the key developments in the natural sciences over the past 450 years and all the main associated theological questions. It provides an outline of the present science and theology discourse and suggests how a scientific description of the world may be placed within a broad theistic scheme.
An Introduction to Indian Philosophy
An Introduction to Indian Philosophy, termed by Srila Prabhupada as ‘very authoritative’, while introducing the reader to the spirit, vast
DISCOURSE
ABOUT THE BOOK
• What do we mean by discourse?
• What are the different conceptions of discourse and methods of discourse analysis in the contemporary social sciences?
• How can this concept help to clarify key theoretical problems and illuminate empirical cases?
The concept of discourse provokes considerable debate and is understood in a variety of ways in the contemporary social sciences. This text presents a comprehensive overview of the different conceptions and methods of discourse analysis, while setting out the traditions of thinking in which these conceptions have emerged. It surveys structuralist, post-structuralist and post-Marxist theory, and the author sets out a fresh approach to discourse analysis, drawing principally on the writings of Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, Gramsci, Althusser, Foucault, Derrida, Laclau and Mouffe. He evaluates a number of pertinent criticisms of this approach, and explores ways in which discourse analysis can assist our understanding of identity formation, hegemony, and the relationship between structure and agency. This concise and engaging text provides a stimulating introduction to the concept of discourse for students and researchers across the social sciences.
Essential Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda remains an icon for all time, especially for the youth. He touched the lives of numerous personalities across
Faith, Reason, Science – Philosophical Reflections with Special Reference to Fides et Ratio
Edited by Varghese Manimala
HABERMAS: Introduction and Analysis
The work of Jürgen Habermas (b. 1929) has been highly influential both in philosophy and across many disciplines in the social sciences. David Ingram here provides an introduction to Habermas’s complex thought as it has evolved from 1953 to the present, spanning philosophy, religion, political science, social science, and law. One of today’s most intriguing thinkers, Habermas is also notably prolific; for students and other readers who wish to navigate the philosopher’s more than thirty books, the lucid and precise Habermas: Introduction and Analysis is a welcome starting point rich in insights. Ingram’s book addresses the entire range of Habermas’s social theory, including his most recent and widely discussed contributions to religion, freedom and determinism, global democracy, and the consolidation of the European Union.
Human Existence as Home Coming – An Approach in Reflective Phenomenology
This book is a reflective journey of thought on human existence.Thisthought is unfolded in the journey and takes place along with that of the thinker.Hence there is a ‘personal touch’ in the emergence and development of the thought in this book. The thought is presented as a journey of home–coming, and this journey passes through the various dimensions of human existence into the wider horizon of a cosmic home with a realization that the journey cannot be stopped, but hasto be continued.
Identity, Difference and Conflict – Postcolonial Critique
Edited By Victor Ferrao & James Ponniah
INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL THEORY: Horkheimer to Habermas
The writings of the Frankfurt School, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left.
Partly due to their rise to prominence during the political turmoil of the 1960s, the work of these critical theorists has been the subject of continuing controversy in both political and academic circles. However, their ideas are frequently misunderstood.
JÜRGEN HABERMAS: Key Concepts
Edited by Brabara Fultner
Jürgen Habermas is one of the foremost social and political philosophers of our time. His influence extends across philosophy, sociology, political science and law. Habermas has championed the linguistic turn in critical theory and developed his own brand of post-Kantian pragmatism. A rare systematic thinker, Habermas has furthered our understanding of modernity, social interaction and linguistic practice, societal institutions, rationality, morality, the law, globalization, and the role of religion in multicultural societies. He has helped shape discussions of truth, objectivity, normativity, and the relationship between the human and the natural sciences.
MAHATMA GANDHI AND HIS PHILOSOPHY
The present study is an attempt to comprehend Gandhi’s philosophy and his entire life sprawling in a variety of popular
