The Cracked Mirror

An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory

Gopal Guru, Sundar Sarukkai (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2017
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-947459-2 (ISBN)

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An enduring challenge confronts the practice of social science in India and other non-western countries. For long, the experiences of these societies have been largely described by theoretical vocabulary and methods drawn from mainstream western intellectual traditions. This has led to two kinds of asymmetries in knowledge production in the social sciences. One is the overwhelming dependence on these western theories in order to make sense of non-western experiences along with the concomitant rejection of indigenous intellectual traditions. The other is the reluctance of the western academia to draw on both non-western writers as well as their intellectual traditions. The politics of these processes is that the experiences of the non-west are dominantly being defined by the theoretical constructs of the west. Using the format of a dialogue between two authors, this book confronts these issues by first beginning with an analysis of the nature of experience followed by an argument for an ethics of theorizing. These issues about the politics of experience and ethics of theory are discussed within the context of theorizing dalit experience and conceptualizing the problematic category of untouchability, by drawing upon both Indian and Western intellectual traditons.

Sundar Sarukkai is Professor in Philosophy, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. Gopal Guru is Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

List of Abbreviations
Introduction - Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai
Chapter 1: Egalitarianism and the Social Science in India - Gopal Guru
Chapter 2: Experience and Theory: From Habermas to Gopal Guru - Sundar Sarukkai
Chapter 3: Understanding Experience - Sundar Sarukkai
Chapter 4: Experience, Space, and Justice - Gopal Guru
Chapter 5: Experience and the Ethics of Theory - Gopal Guru
Chapter 6: Ethics of Theorizing - Sundar Sarukkai
Chapter 7: Phenomenology of Untouchability - Sundar Sarukkai
Chapter 8: Archaeology of Untouchability - Gopal Guru
Chapter 9: Conclusion - Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.08.2017
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	142 x 217 mm
Gewicht	232 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-947459-1 / 0199474591
ISBN-13	978-0-19-947459-2 / 9780199474592
Zustand	Neuware