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Author:   Vinay Lal (Professor of History and Asian American Studies, Professor of History and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).) ,  Roby Rajan (Professor, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780199466863

ISBN 10:   0199466866
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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c Preface: Civilizational Dialogues and the Politics of a Collective - Vinay Lal Acknowledgements Vinay Lal and Roby Rajan Introduction: Post-metaphysics and the Future of an Illusion - Roby Rajan 1. Is Metaphysics Political? Sundar Sarukkai 2. A Disowned Father of the Nation in India: Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and the Demonic and the Seductive in Indian Nationalism - Ashis Nandy 3. Backwater Disclosure: Ontological Politics and the Dialectics of Intercommunality - Roby Rajan 4. The Politics and Metaphysics of Intellectual Practices: Ashis Nandy and U. R. Ananthamurthy in Conversation - Edited and annotated by Vinay La 5. A Marriage Made in Heaven? How Metaphysics Transforms Politics: A Case Study - Julius Lipner The Transmutation of Metaphysics and Politics in Literature - N. Manu Chakravarthy 7. Moving in the Double Bind: Reconfiguring Indian Reflective and Creative Traditions Today - D. Venkat Rao 8. Unarv: The Poetic Factor in Metaphysics and Politics - M. C. Dinakaran and Anish Damodaran Notes on Contributors Index

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Vinay Lal is Professor of History and Asian-American Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and has written widely on modern Indian history, colonialism, the worldwide Indian diaspora, the politics of knowledge systems, public and popular culture in India, American politics, and the moral and political thought of Gandhi. Roby Rajan is Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and has published internationally in a wide variety of disciplines including operations research, economic theory, game theory, Marxist theory, and aesthetic theory.

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