Mahabharata Now (eBook, ePUB)

Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics
Redaktion: Chakrabarti, Arindam; Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Discussing the contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic Mahabharata, this volume imaginatively re-interprets the classic in the light of pre-modern Indian aesthetic codes, as well as Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317342137
• Artikelnr.: 49268131

Autorenporträt

Arindam Chakrabarti is Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA. Sibaji Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Kolkata, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Peter Ronald deSouza. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part I: Narration 1. Of Gambling: A Few Lessons from the Mah
bh
rata Sibaji Bandyopadhyay 2. Methodology of the Critical Edition of the Mah
bh
rata Saroja Bhate 3. Significance of the Early Parvans: Modes of Narration, Birth Stories and Seeds of Conflict Sibesh Bhattacharya 4. Understanding Yudhi
tòhira's Actions: Recasting Karma-Yoga in a Wittgensteinian Mould Enakshi Mitra Part II: Aesthetics 5. Aesthetics of the Mah
bh
rata: Traditional Interpretations Radhavallabh Tripathi 6. Karnòa in and out of the Mah
bh
rata Nrisinha Prasad Bhaduri Part III: Ethics 7. Care Ethics and Epistemic Justice: Some Insights from the Mah
bh
rata Vrinda Dalmiya 8. Who Speaks for Whom? The Queen, the D
s
and Sexual Politics in the Sabh
parvan Uma Chakravarti 9. Moral Doubts, Moral Dilemmas and Situational Ethics in the Mah
bh
rata Prabal Kumar Sen 10. Of Sleep and Violence: Reading the Sauptikaparvan in Times of Terror Anirban Das 11. Himòs
-Ahimòs
in the Mah
bh
rata: The Lonely Position of Yudhi
tòhira Gangeya Mukherji 12. Just Words: An Ethics of Conversation in the Mah
bh
rata Arindam Chakrabarti