Social Theory And Asian Dialogues

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811070952

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Social Theory and Asian Dialogues by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational dialogue and a deepening of the universe of intellectual discourse in order to transform sociology into a truly planetary conversation on the human condition. Focusing on perspectives from Asia, notably East Asia and India, it interrogates presuppositions in contemporary critical social theory about man, culture and society, and considers central themes such as knowledge and power, knowledge and liberation. The diverse contributions tackle key questions such the globalization of social theory, identity and society in east asia, as well as issues such as biopolitics, social welfare and eurocentrism. They also examine dialogues along multiple trajectories between social theorists from the Euro-American world and from the Asian universe, such as between Kant and Gandhi, Habermas and Sri Aurobindo, the Bildung tradition in Europe and the Confucian traditions. Arguing for a global comparative engagement and cross-cultural dialogue, this is a key read for all those interested in the future of social theory in the wake of globalization and the rise of the global south.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2017326117

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Social Theory and Asian Dialogues by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000883763

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Social Healing by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approach—bringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality together—to understand health, social suffering and healing in our contemporary world. It shows how we can transform the present discourse and reality of social suffering by multi-dimensional movements of social healing. The author argues for the need for a new art of healing in place of the dominant and pervasive technology and politics of killing. It discusses manifold creative theories and practices of healing in self, society, and the world as well as new movements in social theory, philosophy, and social sciences which deploy creative methods of art and performance in healing our psychic and social wounds. It explores the spiritual, social, ethical, and political dimensions of health and healing. This pioneering work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social theory, sociology, politics, philosophy, and psychology.

Author : Masamichi Ueno
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000910810

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Philosophy of Education in Dialogue between East and West by Masamichi Ueno Pdf

This edited book opens a dialogue on theories and philosophies of education between the East and the West in the era of globalisation. A great deal of research has been devoted to discussion of the ideas of Western theorists such as Plato, Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Fröbel, Herbert, Dewey, Piaget, and so on, and their thoughts have had a tremendous impact on Japanese educational practices. In addition, the 21st-century society has promoted international academic standardisation of knowledge, skills, and competencies for a knowledge-based economy, making great strides in educational development for globalisation. On the other hand, East Asia has retained its own unique insights and perspectives that cannot entirely be understood by Western philosophies of education alone. The contributors to this volume offer the reader insights into how Japanese and East Asian theories and philosophies of education encounter those from the West, by taking up heated and controversial issues such as education of caring, morality, nature, catastrophe, body and cultivation, art, language, politics, democracy, and modernity. The book will appeal to researchers, teachers, students, policymakers, and anyone interested in the theory and philosophy of education in the East, or those who would like to reconsider education in a multicultural society.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780857289346

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Knowledge and Human Liberation by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

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. The volume also features a Foreword by John Clammer (United Nations University, Tokyo) and an Afterword by Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame).

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri,Su-Chen Wu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811906848

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Cross-Currents of Social Theorizing of Contemporary Taiwan by Ananta Kumar Giri,Su-Chen Wu Pdf

The book presents aspects of cross-currents of theorizing of self, culture and society in the contemporary Taiwan. Social theorizing has been addressed critically, reflectively and creatively by the philosophical, religious, psychological and literary traditions of one of the world’s great civilizations Theorizing is a dynamic movement of self, culture, society and the world as it is related to our actions, reflections, meditations to understand the world more meaningfully and holistically as well as to transform it. But much of social theorizing in the modern world is primarily Euro-American and despite the socalled globalization of knowledge, this condition of one-sided Euro-American valorization of knowledge and neglect of others continues unabated. There is very little attention to theorizing about the human condition emerging from other parts of the world such as Taiwan and its global implication. This book transforms this condition by mapping the field of theorizing in a wider spectrum of philosophy, psychology, religions, social sciences and humanities in contemporary Taiwan.

Author : Michael Murphy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786615534

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A Post-Western Account of Critical Cosmopolitan Social Theory by Michael Murphy Pdf

In this book, Michael Murphy argues that if cosmopolitanism is to remain critical and relevant, rather than set out another grand project, what is required is a process of critique and cooperation. At the level of inter-cultural exchange, this requires understanding the encounter with the Other as a mutual phase of development and holds out the potential to rejuvenate world philosophies.Through this process the cosmopolitan imagination emerges from a dialogue between global traditions of relational sociologies on matters of common concern. The second stage of the book applies this methodology to provide a radical account of being and acting in the world. This will be achieved through engaging in conversation with the works of the critical theorist Gerard Delanty, the decolonial theorist Walter Mignolo, and the Buddhist, Confucian, and phenomenological inspired work of Watsuji Tetsurō. In providing a move away from abstractions and ideals to instead focus on injustices and the everyday life, Murphy uncovers an independent source for political legitimacy not defined by the rationality of the state or dependent on the ideals of Western philosophy. Part of this investigation also reveals a post-individual account of agency as an enactive being. Emphasising agency as becoming has the potential to allow us to reimagine the relationship between the self and the institutions of democracy. The main themes of this book are eurocentrism, critical cosmopolitanism, post-individual subjectivity and democracy.

Author : Cary J. Nederman,Takashi Shogimen
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739131411

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Western political thought in dialogue with Asia by Cary J. Nederman,Takashi Shogimen Pdf

Given the rise of globalization and coinciding increase in cultural clashes among diverse nations, it has become eminently clear to scholars of political thought that there exists a critical gap in the knowledge of non-Western philosophies and how Western thought has been influenced by them. This gap has led to a severely diminished capacity of both state and nonstate actors to communicate effectively on a global scale. The political theorists, area scholars, and intellectual historians gathered here by Takashi Shogimen and Cary J. Nederman examine the exchange of political ideas between Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. They establish the need for comparative political thought, showing that in order to fully grasp the origins and achievements of the West, historians of political thought must incorporate Asian political discourse and ideas into their understanding. By engaging in comparative studies, this volume proves the necessity of a cross-disciplinary approach in guiding the study of the global history of political thought.

Author : Ruth Abbey
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438477381

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Cosmopolitan Civility by Ruth Abbey Pdf

Prolific and pioneering, Fred Dallmayr has been an active scholar for over fifty years. His research interests include modern and contemporary political theory, hermeneutics, phenomenology, the Frankfurt School, continental political thought, democratic theory, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and cosmopolitanism. Dallmayr is also one of the founders of comparative political thought and his interest in non-Western political theory spans Chinese, Islamic, Indian, Buddhist, and Latin American traditions. In emulation of the vast interdisciplinary and international character of Dallmayr's work, this book draws upon senior and emerging scholars from an array of disciplines and countries, with essays that are philosophical (in the Western and non-Western traditions), cultural and/or political, and international. Dallmayr himself responds to the essays in a concluding chapter.

Author : Jennifer McWeeny,Ashby Butnor
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231166256

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Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue by Jennifer McWeeny,Ashby Butnor Pdf

In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist philosophies, founding a new mode of inquiry that attends to diverse voices and the complex global relationships that define our world. These cross-cultural meditations focus on the liberation of persons from suffering, oppression, illusion, harmful conventions and desires, and other impediments to full personhood by deploying a methodology that traverses multiple philosophical styles, historical texts, and frames of reference. Hailing from the discipline of philosophy in addition to Asian, gender, and religious studies, the contributors offer a fresh take on the classic concerns of free will, consciousness, knowledge, objectivity, sexual difference, embodiment, selfhood, the state, morality, and hermeneutics. One of the first anthologies to embody the practice of feminist comparative philosophy, this collection creatively and effectively engages with global, cultural, and gender differences within the realms of scholarly inquiry and theory construction.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811336874

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Practical Spirituality and Human Development by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book explores varieties of spiritual movements and alternative experiments for the generation of beauty, dignity and dialogue in a world where the rise of the religious in politics and the public sphere is often accompanied by violence. It examines how spirituality can contribute to human development, social transformations and planetary realizations, urging us to treat each other, and our planet, with evolutionary care and respect. Trans-disciplinary and trans-paradigmatic to its very core, this text opens new pathways of practical spirituality and humanistic action for both scholarship and discourse and offers an invaluable companion for scholars across religious studies, cultural studies and development studies.

Author : Venter, Francois
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781800882584

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The Language of Constitutional Comparison by Venter, Francois Pdf

In this incisive and thought-provoking book, Francois Venter illuminates the issues arising from the fact that the current language of constitutional law is strongly premised on a particular worldview rooted in the history of the states around the North Atlantic Ocean. Highlighting how this terminological hegemony is being challenged from various directions, Venter explores the problem that all constitutional comparatists face: that they all must use the same words to express different meanings.

Author : Roderick J. Lawrence
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781802207835

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Handbook of Transdisciplinarity: Global Perspectives by Roderick J. Lawrence Pdf

This expansive Handbook guides readers through a multi-layered landscape of the interpretations and uses of transdisciplinary thinking and practices worldwide. It advances understanding of the strengths and limits of transdisciplinary research in the context of societal power relations, institutional structures and social inequalities. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Author : Pracha Hutanuwatr,Ramu Manivannan
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1842773453

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The Asian Future by Pracha Hutanuwatr,Ramu Manivannan Pdf

Brings together the ideas and experiences of some of Asia's outstanding politicians, intellectuals and social activists. Through in-depth interviews, provides an overview and critique of the present system and describes a vision of a new Asian society.

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789811571220

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Roots, Routes and a New Awakening by Ananta Kumar Giri Pdf

This book seeks to find creative and transformative relationship among roots and routes and create a new dynamics of awakening so that we can overcome the problems of closed and xenopbhobic roots and rootless cosmopolitanism. The book draws upon multiple philosophical and spiritual traditions of the world such as Siva Tantra, Buddhist phenomenology and Peircean Semiotics and discusses the works of Ibn-Arabi, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Raimon Panikkar,among others.The book is transdiscipinary building on creative thinking from philosophy, anthropology, political studies and literature. It is a unique contribution for forging a new relationship between roots and routes in our contemporary fragile and complex world.