Roots, Routes and a New Awakening

Beyond One and Many and Alternative Planetary Futures
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-981-15-7124-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 541 g

This book seeks to find creative and transformative relationship among roots and routes and create a new dynamics of awakening so that we can overcome the problems of closed and xenopbhobic roots and rootless cosmopolitanism. The book draws upon multiple philosophical and spiritual traditions of the world such as Siva Tantra, Buddhist phenomenology and Peircean Semiotics and discusses the works of Ibn-Arabi, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Raimon Panikkar,among others.The book is transdiscipinary building on creative thinking from philosophy, anthropology, political studies and literature. It is a unique contribution for forging a new relationship between roots and routes in our contemporary fragile and complex world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giri, Ananta Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Border Crossings in Self, Societies and Spiritual Awakening.- Beyond One and Many: Deconstructing the Notion of Identity.- Siva Tantra Rediscovered: Transforming the Etic Routes and Emic Roots of Indian Spirituality.- Semiotic Roots and Buddhist Routes in Phenomenology and Intercultural Philosophy: A Peircean study of Abhidharma Buddhist Theories of Consciousness and Perception.- Ecological Interconnectedness: Entwined Selves, Transcendent and Immanent.- From Root to Return Routes: A Brief Tantric Description of the Passage from Being to Beings.- Roots, Routes and Creative Transformations: New Perspectives on Transitions in Human Society.- Thoreau – Tolstoy – Gandhi: The Origin of Satyagraha.- “The Gospel According to Babylon”: The Rastafarian Challenge to Euro-centric Theological Discourse in the Caribbean.- Part Two Roots,  Routes anda New Awakening: Beyond One and Many and Alternative Planetary Futures.- Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Towards a New Art of Border Crossing.- Multicentric World and Nationalism.- Roots, Routes and A New Awakening: Walking and Meditating with Raimon Panikkar.- Overcoming Evil as Creation of Others as Enemies:Roots, Routes and a New Awakening of Plural Identities.- Muddled Roots and Diverse Routes of Reality: Understanding Hindu Ra??ra and Gandhi Ra??ra through the myth of Bha??oji Dik?ita.- Roots, Routes and a New Awakening: Rupantara, A Transforamtive Iniative in Co-Learning and Training of Tribal Teachers of Odisha, India.- Roots and Routes and The Origins of Urban Theory: A Journey to “Stadtluft Macht Frei”.- Utopias and Dystopias in Literature and Life.- Mysticism in the Tree of Anthroposcene: The Feminine Tree of Life and the Virtual Sphere.- Roots, Routes, and CrossingBorders: Embracing Cosmopolitanism in a Transcultural World.

Über Autor(innen)

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He is the author and editor of more than two dozen books in English and Odia including Knowledge and Human Liberation (2013), Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo (editor), and The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations(forthcoming).