Critical Humanities from India

Contexts, Issues, Futures
Herausgeber: Rao, D Venkat

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man, crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This volume unravels the 'barely secularized heritage' of Europe (Derrida's phrase) and its fatal consequences in other cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in which the question of being human (along with non-human others) today from heterogeneous cultural 'backgrounds' can be undertaken.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781138743045
• ISBN-10: 1138743046
• Artikelnr.: 52010276

Autorenporträt

D. Venkat Rao is Professor of English Literature, School of English Literary Studies, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. In addition to books in English and Telugu, he has published several articles in national and international journals. His recent work is Cultures of Memory in South Asia (2014). His other publications include In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999), a translation of Ashis Nandy's The Intimate Enemy into Telugu. He has also translated into English, a Telugu intellectual autobiography entitled The Last Brahmin (2012). He has co-edited Reflections on Literature, Criticism and Theory (2004) and an anthology of essays on U. R. Ananthamurthy's Samskara. His interests include literary and cultural studies, image studies, comparative thought, translation, and mnemocultures. He has designed several courses interfacing culture, technology, and literary studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Foreword. Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction:
Crossing (the) Legacies 1. Education and Structures of Moral Formation: The
Limits of Liberal Education in India 2. In-discipline(s): Diversity,
Disciplinarity and the Humanities 3. Sites of Learning and Intellectual
Parasitism: The Case for New Humanities 4. Why Communalism is an Indian
problem: The Relationship between Communalism and Hinduism in Colonial
Discourse 5. Sacerdotal Violence and the Caste System: The Long Shadow of
Christian-Orientalism 6. Caste as an Impediment in the Journey of a Bhakta:
Lingayat Vachanas, Jati and Adhyatma 7. River Literacy and the Challenge of
a Rain Terrain 8. Accents of Memory: Critical Humanities and the Question
of Inheritance 9. Indian Culture and its Social Security System 10. The
Politics of Knowledge, Here and Now: A Conversation with Ashis Nandy.
Glossary. Index