Ananta Kumar Giri

Knowledge and Human Liberation (eBook, PDF)

Towards Planetary Realizations

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Produktbeschreibung

Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today's world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self. It is a multidimensional struggle and aspiration in which knowledge self, social and spiritual can play a transformative role. 'Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations' undertakes such a journey of transformation, and seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis the familiar themes of human interest, critical theory, enlightenment, ethnography, democracy, pluralism, rationality, secularism and cosmopolitanism.

Knowledge today is imprisoned not only in structures of domination but also in varieties of dualisms expert and the lay, cognitive and emotional and thus we are in need of a new art of cultivating non-duality and wholeness. The present book seeks to nurture the garden of liberatory and transformational knowledge by presenting alternative pathways gathered from many different global locations and traditions. Discussing diverse thinkers such as Sri Aurobindo, Jürgen Habermas, Erasmus, Kant, Tocqueville, Gandhi, Foucault, Daya Krishna, Ramachandra Gandhi and Martha Nussbaum, this text seeks to rethink some important themes in the contemporary discourse of knowledge, including: knowledge as power; knowledge as emancipatory interest; evolution; rationality; power; freedom; anthropology; history; law; compassion and confrontation; epistemology; ontology; political consumerism and responsible consumption; civil society and self-development; and rights.

Offering a groundbreaking and interdisciplinary exploration of ideas about social transformation, 'Knowledge and Human Liberation' bridges both Eastern and Western philosophy to create a definition of transformative knowledge that defies Eurocentric thinking. Via the discourses of sociology, philosophy, religion and spirituality, the text rethinks the relationship between knowledge production and ideas to offer a unique perspective on the issue of human liberation in today's oppressive world. The volume also features a Foreword by John Clammer (United Nations University, Tokyo) and an Afterword by Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857289346
• Artikelnr.: 44457367

Autorenporträt

Ananta Kumar Giri

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Acknowledgments; Foreword by John Clammer; Introduction: The
Calling of Transformative Knowledge; PART I – NURTURING THE GARDEN OF
TRANSFORMATIONAL KNOWLEDGE: ROOTS AND VARIANTS: 1. Knowledge and Human
Liberation: Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond; 2. Beyond West and
East: Co-evolution and the Calling of a New Enlightenment and Non-duality;
3. The Modern Prince and the Modern Sage: Transforming Power and Freedom;
4. Kant and Anthropology; 5. Tocqueville as an Ethnographer of American
Prison Systems and Democratic Practice; PART II – RETHINKING KNOWLEDGE: 6.
Some Recent Reconsiderations of Rationality; 7. Contemporary Challenges to
the Idea of History; 8. Rule of Law and the Calling of “Dharma”: Colonial
Encounters, Post-colonial Experiments and Beyond; 9. Compassion and
Confrontation: Dialogic Experiments with Traditions and Pathways to New
Futures; 10. Rethinking Pluralism and Rights: Meditative Verbs of
Co-realizations and the Challenges of Transformations; 11. The Calling of a
New Critical Theory: Self-Development, Inclusion of the Other and Planetary
Realizations; PART III – ASPIRATIONS AND STRUGGLES FOR LIBERATION:TOWARDS
PLANETARY REALIZATIONS:12. Rethinking the Politics and Ethics of
Consumption: Dialogues with “Swadeshi” Movements and Gandhi; 13. Swaraj as
Blossoming: Compassion, Confrontation and a New Art of Integration; 14.
Civil Society and the Calling of Self-Development; 15. The Calling of
Practical Spirituality: Transformations in Science and Religion and New
Dialogues on Self, Transcendence and Society; 16. Spiritual Cultivation for
a Secular Society; 17. Cosmopolitanism and Beyond: Towards Planetary
Realizations; Afterword by Fred Dallmayr; Advance Praise