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040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a109 _bR126c
100			_aRaghuramaraju, A.
245			_aCalibrating western philosophy for India _brousseau, derrida, deleuze, guattari, bergson and vaddera chandidas _cA. Raghuramaraju
260			_bRoutledge _c2019 _aOxon
300			_a102p
520			_aThis book proposes a new way of reading modern Western philosophers in the Indian context. It questions the colonial methodology, or the practice of importing theories of Western philosophy, and shows how its unmediated applications are often incongruent, irrelevant, and unproductive in local frameworks. The author shows an alternative route to approaching philosophers from the West – Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Bergson – by bending and reassembling aspects of their ideas and theories to relate with the diversity and complexity of Indian society. He also offers insights on the politics of non-being and negation from a neglected modern Indian philosopher, Vaddera Chandidas, as a step forward from the Western philosophers presented here. An intervention in philosophical research methodology, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of philosophy, Western philosophy, Indian philosophy, comparative studies, postcolonial studies, literature, cultural studies, and political philosophy.
650			_aPhilosophy, Comparative
650			_aPhilosophy -- India -- History -- 20th century
942			_cBK
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