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
MICHEL FOUCAULT: Key Concepts
Edited by Dianna Taylor
Michel Foucault’s work on freedom, subjectivity and power is now central to thinking across an extraordinarily wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology and criminology. Michel Foucault: Key Concepts explores Foucault’s central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self. Each essay focuses on a specific concept, analysing its meaning and uses across Foucault’s work, highlighting its connection to other concepts, and emphasizing its potential applications. Together, the chapters provide the main coordinates to map Foucault’s work. But more than just a guide to his work, Michel Foucault: Key Concepts introduces Foucault’s thinking, equipping the reader with a set of tools that will facilitate and enhance further study of one of the most influential thinkers of recent years.
PIERRE BOURDIEU: Key Concepts
Edited by Michael Grenfell
The French social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu (1930 – 2002) is now recognised as one of the major thinkers of the twentieth century. In a career of over fifty years, Bourdieu studied a wide range of topics: education, culture, art, politics, economics, literature, law, and philosophy. Throughout his studies, Bourdieu developed a highly specialised series of concepts that he referred to as his “thinking tools”, which were used to uncover the workings of contemporary society. Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts takes a selection of his most important concepts and examines them in detail. Focusing on an individual concept, each chapter written to be of immediate use to the student with little or no previous knowledge of Bourdieu. At the same time, the chapters develop a range of dimensions around each concept, so that coverage will also engage the more experienced reader.
POST-THEORY: New Directions in Criticism
Edited by Martin McQuillan, Graeme Macdonald, Robin Purves and Stephen Thomson
Post-Theory brings together some of the most prominent figures and rising stars in the field of Critical Theory. Essays consider such issues as: the current state of Critical Theory; the type of work Theory has made possible; and the future of theory. Opening with a Preface by Ernesto Laclau, the book closes with a ‘Post-Word’ from Helene Cixous. This volume of new work features examples of new theoretical possibilities. Contributors include: Catherine Belsey, Geoffrey Bennington, Hélène Cixous, Patricia Duncker, Antony Easthope, Charles Forsdick, Alex Houen, Lorna Hutson, Ernesto Laclau, Jeremy Lane, Julian Murphet, Christopher Norris, Nicholas Royle, Robert Smith and Eric Woehrling. Key Features • Ground-breaking collection of opinion-changing work • Timely and topical intervention into Critical Theory • Wide range of approaches and examples of theoretical possibilities • Contributors include huge names in the field, such as Catherine Besley, Geoffrey Bennington, Hélène Cixous, Patricia Duncker, Lorna Hutson, Ernesto Laclau, Julian Murphet, Christopher Norris, Nicholas Royle, Robert Smith and Eric Woehrling
POSTMODERNISM OR THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF LATE CAPITALISM
Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of “postmodernism.” Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.
POSTMODERNITY AND ITS DISCONTENTS
When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of postmodernity, Bauman argues, Freud’s analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. The regulation of desire turns from an irritating necessity into an assault against individual freedom. In the postmodern era, the liberty of the individual is the overriding value, the criterion in terms of which all social rules and regulations are assessed. Postmodernity is governed by the ‘will to happiness’: the result, however, is a sacrificing of security.
RELEVANCE OF AMBEDKARISM IN INDIA (Second Edition)
Edited by K S Chalam
Ambedkarism as an ideology of the oppressed in India, particularly with reference to Bahujan masses, has emerged as a dominant discourse. It was during the centenary year 1991 that academics and activists discussed the contributions of B.R. Ambedkar in detail and realised the potential of a liberation thought. The book being an outcome of a national seminar for the first time twenty-five years ago, established theoretical foundations of building Ambedkarism as a philosophy. There are four sections containing 26 papers. Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, A.M. Rajasekhariah, Sharad Patil, S.G. Kulkarni, S.K. Sarkar, K.N. Kadam and others; along with K.S. Chalam deliberated at the seminar around the theme of the book. This edition of the book contains new material that recorded the immensity and exuberance of Ambedkarism during the last twenty-five years since the first edition appeared.
Romancing the Sacred? Towards an Indian Christian Philosophy of Religion
Edited by George Karuvelil, S.J
Meeting held on the theme “Dynamics of religion: philosophical review from Indian perspectives”.
THE BACKGROUND TO CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY: From Kant to Levi Strauss
Edited by Jon Simons This introductory textbook provides students and other readers with an accessible basic guide to key figures
The Problems of Philosophy
The Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by Bertrand Russell, in which Russell attempts to create a brief and accessible guide to the problems of philosophy.