Taking up themes such as the transmission of tradition, ethical engagements with modernity, ethical practices of the self, and moral relations between self and others, this volume puts South Asian traditions of ethical life into conversation with the Aristotelian, Christian, and liberal traditions that have been so consequential for ethical life in the West.
Taking up themes such as the transmission of tradition, ethical engagements with modernity, ethical practices of the self, and moral relations between self and others, this volume puts South Asian traditions of ethical life into conversation with the Aristotelian, Christian, and liberal traditions that have been so consequential for ethical life in the West.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Anand Pandian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He is author of Crooked Stalks: Cultivating Virtue in South India. Daud Ali is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania. He is author of Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction / Anand Pandian and Daud Ali Part 1. Traditions in Transmission 1. The Subhas.ita as an Artifact of Ethical Life in Medieval India / Daud Ali 2. Disciplining the Senses, Schooling the Mind: Inhabiting Virtue in the Tamil Tin.n.ai School / Bhavani Raman 3. Ethical Traditions in Question: Diaspora Jainism and the Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements / James Laidlaw Part 2. Ethics and Modernity 4. Vernacular Capitalists and the Modern Subject in India: Law, Cultural Politics, and Market Ethics / Ritu Birla 5. The Ethics of Textuality: The Protestant Sermon and the Tamil Public Sphere / Bernard Bate 6. Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History / Dipesh Chakrabarty Part 3. Practices of the Self 7. Between Intuition and Judgment: Moral Creativity in Theravada Buddhist Ethics / Charles Hallisey 8. Young Manliness: Ethical Culture in the Gymnasiums of the Medieval Deccan / Emma Flatt 9. Ethical Subjects: Time, Timing, and Tellability / Leela Prasad 10. Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class, and Student Power in Modern North India / Craig Jeffrey Part 4. Ethical Lives of Others 11. Living by Dying: Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Warrior / Ajay Skaria 12. Moral and Spiritual Striving in the Everyday: To Be a Muslim in Contemporary India / Veena Das 13. Ethical Publicity: On Transplant Victims, Wounded Communities, and the Moral Demands of Dreaming / Lawrence Cohen List of Contributors Index
Introduction / Anand Pandian and Daud Ali Part 1. Traditions in Transmission 1. The Subhas.ita as an Artifact of Ethical Life in Medieval India / Daud Ali 2. Disciplining the Senses, Schooling the Mind: Inhabiting Virtue in the Tamil Tin.n.ai School / Bhavani Raman 3. Ethical Traditions in Question: Diaspora Jainism and the Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements / James Laidlaw Part 2. Ethics and Modernity 4. Vernacular Capitalists and the Modern Subject in India: Law, Cultural Politics, and Market Ethics / Ritu Birla 5. The Ethics of Textuality: The Protestant Sermon and the Tamil Public Sphere / Bernard Bate 6. Empire, Ethics, and the Calling of History / Dipesh Chakrabarty Part 3. Practices of the Self 7. Between Intuition and Judgment: Moral Creativity in Theravada Buddhist Ethics / Charles Hallisey 8. Young Manliness: Ethical Culture in the Gymnasiums of the Medieval Deccan / Emma Flatt 9. Ethical Subjects: Time, Timing, and Tellability / Leela Prasad 10. Demoralizing Developments: Ethics, Class, and Student Power in Modern North India / Craig Jeffrey Part 4. Ethical Lives of Others 11. Living by Dying: Gandhi, Satyagraha, and the Warrior / Ajay Skaria 12. Moral and Spiritual Striving in the Everyday: To Be a Muslim in Contemporary India / Veena Das 13. Ethical Publicity: On Transplant Victims, Wounded Communities, and the Moral Demands of Dreaming / Lawrence Cohen List of Contributors Index
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