Social Justice

Interdisciplinary Inquiries from India
Herausgeber: Cybil, K. V.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the political and philosophical underpinnings of exclusion and social injustice in India. Going beyond the legal framework of justice, the essays in the volume reassemble the social from the margins and challenge Eurocentric systems of knowledge which have dominated discourse on social injustice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781138505049
• ISBN-10: 1138505048
• Artikelnr.: 56351926

Autorenporträt

K. V. Cybil is Associate Professor, Department of Humanistic Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi. He has published articles with the Economic and Political Weekly and the NMML New Delhi on Indian practices of social exclusion and injustices. Before joining IIT BHU, he also taught at Ambedkar University Delhi, University of Calicut (Christ College), University of Delhi, India and Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Ambedkar and Gandhi: exploring aporias in social justice
and practices. 2. Ambedkar and other immortals: a note on comparative
politics and incomparable events. 3. Parallel praxis:
history-domination-resistance-ideology-theory. 4. The role of the research
subject in Habermas' Theory of Communicative Action. 5. Philosophy in
practice: Nataraja Guru reading Narayana Guru. 6. Victim(s), parasites and
creative evolution: Narayana Guru and anthropology of vision. Index.