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020 _a9780199474592 (PB)
041 _aeng
080 _a316.1
_bGUR
100 1 _aGuru, Gopal
245 1 4 _aThe cracked mirror
_b: An Indian debate on experience and theory
246 3 0 _aIndian debate on experience and theory
260 _aNew Delhi
_bOxford University Press
_c2023
300 _aviii, 248p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.
505 0 _aEgalitarianism 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.
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aEquality
_zIndia.
650 0 _aSocial ethics
_zIndia.
650 0 _aDalits
_zIndia
690 _aGeneral
700 1 _aSarukkai, Sundar.
856 4 2 _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1316/2012406672-b.html
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