On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta
This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his engagement with the oeuvres of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It shows how Mehtas sense of cross-cultural philosophy and r...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Series: | Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures ;
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5231-3 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- From Banaras to the West and and Back
- From Subcontinent to Continental
- Pilgrims and Pilgrimages
- Digging at the Roots: The Logic of the Hindu Tradition
- Heroes, Jewish Nomads, and Hindu Pilgrims: Ulysses, Abraham and Uddhava at the Cross- (cultural) roads
- Bibliography.