The cracked mirror : an Indian debate on experience and theory
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi Oxford University Press 2023Description: viii, 248pISBN: 9780199474592 (PB)Other title: Indian debate on experience and theorySubject(s): Equality -- India | Social ethics -- India | Dalits -- India | GeneralOnline resources: Click here to access onlineCurrent library | Home library | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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IMSc Library | IMSc Library | 316.1 GUR (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Checked out to HITESH VILAS WANKHEDE (hiteshw) | 08/08/2024 | 77545 |
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316 HAL The Marxist Philosophy and the Sciences | 316 HOB History of Marxism : Marxism in Marx's Day | 316.1 GUR The cracked mirror : an Indian debate on experience and theory | 316.3 HEN Marx : An Introduction | 316.3 KUP Conceptualizing Society | 316.3 NAD The theory of social structure |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.
Egalitarianism and the Social Sciences in India / Gopal Guru -- Experience and Theory: From Habermas to Gopal Guru / Sundar Sarukkai -- Understanding Experience / Sundar Sarukkai -- Experience, Space and Justice / Gopal Guru -- Experience and the Ethics of Theory / Gopal Guru -- Ethics of Theorizing / Sundar Sarukkai -- Phenomenology of Untouchability / Sundar Sarukkai -- Archaeology of Untouchability / Gopal Guru.
"This volume explores the relationship between experience and theory in Indian social sciences in the form of a dialogue. It focuses on questions of Dalit experience and untouchability. While Gopal Guru argues that only those who have lived lives as subalterns can represent them accurately, Sundar Sarukkai feels that people located outside the community can also represent them. Thematically divided into five sections, the first discusses the problems associated with theory in the social sciences in the Indian context. The next makes inquiries into the nature of personal and collective experience. The third explores the larger connection between ethics and theory in India, both in the natural and social sciences. The fourth examines the ontological and epistemological nature of experience itself and the politics of experience, and the last focuses on the experience and theory of experience in India. The authors invoke the image of a cracked mirror to suggest a more complex and distorted relation between experience and theory."--Publisher's website.
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