Minds Without Fear is an intellectual and cultural history of India during the period of British occupation. It demonstrates that this was a period of renaissance in India in which philosophy¿both in the public sphere and in the Indian universities¿played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively Indian modernity. The book is also a history of Indian philosophy. It demonstrates how the development of a secular philosophical voice facilitated theconstruction of modern Indian society and the consolidation of the nationalist movement.
Minds Without Fear is an intellectual and cultural history of India during the period of British occupation. It demonstrates that this was a period of renaissance in India in which philosophy¿both in the public sphere and in the Indian universities¿played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively Indian modernity. The book is also a history of Indian philosophy. It demonstrates how the development of a secular philosophical voice facilitated theconstruction of modern Indian society and the consolidation of the nationalist movement.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Bhushan: Professor of Philosophy, Smith CollegeGarfield: Silbert Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Smith College. Until 2016 he is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and recurrent visiting professor of philosophy at Yale University
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* Preface * Introduction * 1. The Tragedy of Indian Philosophy * 2. Looking Backward: Reason, Cosmopolitan Consciousness and the Emergence of Indian Modernity * 3. The Company and the Crown: Macaulay's India? * 4. On the Very Idea of a Renaissance * 5. Reform Movements: From Universality to Secularity in the Brahmo and Arya Samaj * 6. India Imagined: Contested Narratives of National Identity * 7. Anticipating India's Future: Varieties of Nationalism * 8. Theorizing Svaraj: Politics and the Academy * 9. The Cambridge Connection: Idealism, Modernity and the Circulation of Ideas * 10. Maya vs Lila: From Sankaracarya to Einstein * 11. The Question of Subjectivity: Neo-Ved?nta in Academic Philosophy * 12. Indian Ways of Seeing: The Centrality of Aesthetics * 13. The Triumph of Indian Philosophy: Thinking through the Renaissance * References
* Preface * Introduction * 1. The Tragedy of Indian Philosophy * 2. Looking Backward: Reason, Cosmopolitan Consciousness and the Emergence of Indian Modernity * 3. The Company and the Crown: Macaulay's India? * 4. On the Very Idea of a Renaissance * 5. Reform Movements: From Universality to Secularity in the Brahmo and Arya Samaj * 6. India Imagined: Contested Narratives of National Identity * 7. Anticipating India's Future: Varieties of Nationalism * 8. Theorizing Svaraj: Politics and the Academy * 9. The Cambridge Connection: Idealism, Modernity and the Circulation of Ideas * 10. Maya vs Lila: From Sankaracarya to Einstein * 11. The Question of Subjectivity: Neo-Ved?nta in Academic Philosophy * 12. Indian Ways of Seeing: The Centrality of Aesthetics * 13. The Triumph of Indian Philosophy: Thinking through the Renaissance * References
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