UID:
edocfu_9959201699702883
Format:
1 online resource (257 p.)
ISBN:
1-4411-4383-1
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1-5013-0150-0
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1-280-12371-0
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9786613527578
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1-4411-1607-9
Content:
"In an increasingly multi-religious and multi-ethnic world, identity has become something actively chosen rather than merely acquired at birth. This book essentially analyzes the resources available to make such a choice. Looking into the world of intellectual India, this unique comparative survey focuses on the identity resources offered by India's traditions of reasoning and public debate. Arguing that identity is a formation of reason, it draws on Indian theory to claim that identities are constructed from exercises of reason as derivation from exemplary cases. The book demonstrates that contemporary debates on global governance and cosmopolitan identities can benefit from these Indian resources, which were developed within an intercultural pluralism context with an emphasis on consensual resolution of conflict. This groundbreaking work builds on themes developed by Amartya Sen to provide a creative pursuit of Indian reasoning that will appeal to anyone studying politics, philosophy, and Asian political thought."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Preface ; Introduction: The Reach and Resources of Reason -- PART I: PUBLIC REASON PROMOTED 1. An Ideal of Public Reason ; 2. Ancient Indian Logic as a Theory of Case-Based Reasoning ; 3. Neutrality: a Theory From the Time of Asoka ; 4. Local Norms: the Priority of the Particular -- PART II: PRACTICAL REASON RESOURCED 5. The Critic Within ; 6. Adapt and Substitute ; 7. Model Humans and Moral Instincts -- PART III: DISSENT 8. Implied Voices of Dissent ; 9. Can One Seek to Answer any Question? Sriharsa -- PART IV: IDENTITY, FOUND OR FASHIONED? 10. On the Formation of Self ; 11. Problems of Self and Identity ; 12. Identity and Illusions about the Self ; 13. "What You Are You Do Not See, What You See is Your Shadow" -- PART V: IDENTITY & THE MODERN INTELLECTUAL 14. Interpreting Intellectual India ; 15. An Exemplary Indian Intellectual ; 16. India and the Shaping of Global Intellectual Culture -- Concluding Summary -- Bibliography.
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Also issued in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-62356-588-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4411-9657-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781501301506
