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Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations

By Ananta Kumar Giri

Book information

Publisher
Anthem Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0857284525, 9780857284525
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2000968 bytes)
Series
Key Issues in Modern Sociology
Pages
332\331
Time added
2017-10-06 17:04:52
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Description

Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self.  It is a multidimensional struggle and aspiration in which knowledge – self, social and spiritual – can play a transformative role. ‘Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations’ undertakes such a journey of transformation, and seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis the familiar themes of human interest, critical theory, enlightenment, ethnography, democracy, pluralism, rationality, secularism and cosmopolitanism. The volume also features a Foreword by John Clammer (United Nations University, Tokyo) and an Afterword by Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame).

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