India, Europe and the Question of Cultural Difference

The Apeiron of Relations

D. Venkat Rao (English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India)

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Routledge India
25 September 2023

Literary theory; Literary studies: post-colonial literature; Social & political philosophy; Cultural studies

Series: Critical Humanities Across Cultures

This volume critically engages with the question of cultural difference and the idea of living with diversity in the context of India and Europe. It looks at certain essential European categories of learning such as art, nature, the human, literature, relation, philosophy, and the humanities and analyses texts from Sanskrit language (through Telugu resources) to argue that categories like prakriti, loka, jati, dharma, karma, sahitya, kala,etc. cannot be conflated with conceptual formations such as nature, world, caste, religion, (sanctioned) action, literature and art respectively. The book questions and unravels the efficacy of European concepts, theories and interpretive frames in understanding Indian reflective traditions and cultural forms. It also lays the groundwork for reorienting teaching and research in universities in the humanities on the basis of key cultural differences. By focusing on major themes in the humanities discourse and their limitations, the work engages with the writings of Heidegger, Derrida and Agamben, among others, from radically new vantage points of Sanskrit-Indian reflective traditions, and challenges prevailing ideas about Indian art, literature and culture.

Part of the Critical Humanities Across Cultures series, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Indian languages and literature, comparative literature, art and aesthetics, postcolonial studies, cultural and heritage studies, philosophy, political philosophy, comparative philosophy, Sanskrit studies, India studies, South Asian studies, Global South studies, and for those working on education in the humanities/human sciences.

By: D. Venkat Rao (English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad India)
Imprint: Routledge India
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367554378
ISBN 10: 0367554372
Series: Critical Humanities Across Cultures
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: Genealogies of Euro-Analysis 2. Contextures of Learning: Darshana and Theoria in Mnemopraxial Traditions 3. Alithic Modes and Lithic Conceptions: Aporias of Indian Cultural Form(ation)s 4. Inquiring Ethos and the Enigma of Difference: Broaching the Mnemocultures of Humanities. Conclusion: Moving On… Bahirmukha

D. Venkat Rao teaches at the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India. Among his publications are the books Critical Humanities from India: Contexts, Issues, Futures (Routledge, 2018); Cultures of Memory in South Asia (2014); and In Citations: Readings in Area Studies of Culture (1999). He has translated into English a Telugu intellectual autobiography called The Last Brahmin (2007, 2012, 2017) and has designed several courses interfacing areas of culture, technology and literary and cultural studies.