Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj: Dialogical Meditations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi
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Philosophy as Samvada and Svaraj discusses Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi’s respective intellectual contributions and speculates how one might take forward the work of the two persons who were among the most brilliant minds of our times. Both Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi emphasized freedom and autonomy of thought and upheld the importance of samvada, somewhat inadequate in its English translation as dialogue. And both of them were philosophers concerned with how philosophy might seek its svaraj, free from the orientalist hold of the religious, the colonial crippling of indigenous languages and institutions and the structures and categories of un-freedom that continue to haunt inhabitants of West and non-West. Philosophy must involve samvada―an open dialogue and intimate encounter between self and other. Both philosophers experimented with these concepts and were enormously creative. This book is a testament not only to the core values of philosophy, but also to how these values can be carried forward by new weaves of tradition and modernity. Cover Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Prologue PART I - Of Love, Liberation and Līlā 1 - Figure and Ground: Reflections on Two Exemplary Indian Thinkers 2 - Ramlīlā: A Metaphysics of the Everyday 3 - ‘Falling in Love with a Civilization’: A Tribute to Daya Krishna, the Thinker PART II - The Idea of Svarāj: Asymmetries of Power, Knowledge and Alternative, Ethical Politics 4 - Gandhi and the Stoics: Squaring Emotional Detachment with Universal Love and Political Action 5 - A Still, Small Voice 6 - Learning to Converse PART III - Modes of Saṃvāda 7 - Towards a New Hermeneutic of Self-inquiry 8 - On Philosophy as Saṃvāda: Thinking with Daya Krishna 9 - The Dialogue Must Continue PART IV - Language, Selfhood and Philosophy 10 - The Virtue of Being a Self 11 - Daya Krishna’s ‘Presuppositionless Philosophy’: Sublimity as the Source of Value and Knowledge 12 - The Moral and the Spiritual: A Study of the Self and the Not-self in Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi 13 - On Missing and Seeming to Miss:Some Philosophical Ramblings on the Subjective/Objective Distinction in Memory of Daya Krishna 14 - Dialogical Investigations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi PART V - Re-thinking Issues in the Arts/Ethics/Science/Mathematics 15 - The Applicability of Indian Aesthetic Theory of Rasa to Visual Arts: A Rejoinder to Daya Krishna’s Article,‘Rasa—The Bane of Indian Aesthetics’ 16 - The Harmony Principle 17 - On Mathematics and the Physical World PART VI - On Life and Death and Dying 18 - Matricide and Martyrdom: Cancer and Karm in the Kalyug Afterword About the Editor and Contributors Index
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