Vivek Dhareshwar

Sites of Learning and Practical Knowledge

Against Normativity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the relationship between cultural difference and practical knowledge and its implications for the study of humanities and the social sciences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780367639730
• ISBN-10: 0367639734
• Artikelnr.: 68476017

Autorenporträt

Vivek Dhareshwar is currently engaged in building a platform for learning called Indian Slate. He was scholar-in-residence at Srishti Institute for Art, Design and Technology, Bengaluru. He was also a co-founder, senior fellow and (for a time) Director of the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bengaluru. His main research interest is in developing a practical epistemology of Indian thought.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 Meta-theory, Practical Knowledge and
Normativity 2. Politics, Experience and Cognitive Enslavement: Gandhi's
Hind Swaraj 3. Framing the Predicament of Indian Thought: Gandhi, the Gita
, and Action 4. Truth or Fact? Reframing the Gandhi-Tagore Debate 5. Marx,
Foucault and the Secularization of Western Culture 6. Understanding the
"Semblance of Objectivity": Critique, Genealogy and Practition 7. Sites of
Learning and Intellectual Parasitism: The Case for New Humanities 8.
Conclusion: Deformation of the Practical and the Categorial Error.
Appendix: Revisiting "Caste and the Secular Self." Bibliography. Index.