Desire and Liberation: Biography of a Text - Couverture rigide

Chandidas, (Late) Dr. Vaddera

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199481938 ISBN 13 : 9780199481934

Editeur : OUP India, 2018

Synopsis

In Desire and Liberation Vaddera Chandidas creates a new metaphysical system. He bases this new system on earlier Indian traditions of sutra literature. The author rejects major convergences in philosophy from both India and the West, especially on the ontological primacy of non-being that results in permanence, which he posits as a mere project of the intellect. He is especially opposed to the idea of permanence, which renders unreliable anything that is not permanent but changing. Thus, desire, which is not permanent, is marginalized. Chandidas points out that contradictoriness is the structural 'tinge' of reality. Therefore, in his philosophy all that is claimed to be permanent is marginal and derivative of the intellect.

A. Raghuramaraju has curated and edited this volume, which proposes a major breakthrough in the field of philosophical studies. The volume reproduces not only Desire and Liberation and Kalidas Bhattacharyya's introduction to it, but also the letters that Bhattacharyya wrote to Chandidas, and Chandidas's own commentary on his text.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vaddera Chandidas taught philosophy at Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupati. His novels Himajwala (Flame of Snow) and Anukshanikam (Eternal Momentariness), and his short story collection Chikatlonunchi Cheekatloki (From Darkness into Darkness) set new trends in Telugu literature.

A Raghuramaraju (ed.) is presently guest faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, India. His publications include Modern Frames and Premodern Themes in Indian Philosophy: Border, Self and the Other (2017), Debating Vivekananda: A Reader (as editor, 2015), and Philosophy and India: Ancestors, Outsiders and Predecessors (2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: OUP India
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199481938
• ISBN 13: 9780199481934
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Éditeur: Raghuramaraju Professor A.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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