
The Cracked Mirror
An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory
OUP India (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 21. June 2012
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-19-807831-9 (ISBN)
Description
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. This book will interest scholars, researchers, and students of Dalit studies, subaltern studies, and politics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
This book will interest scholars, researchers, and students of Dalit studies, subaltern studies, and politics.
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
474 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-807831-9 (9780198078319)
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Persons
Gopal Guru is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Sundar Sarukkai is Professor and Director, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal University, Karnataka. Also, former Professor of Philosophy, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru.
Content
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; INTRODUCTION BY GOPAL GURU AND SUNDAR SARUKKAI ; 1. EGALITARIANISM AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IN INDIA BY GOPAL GURU ; 2. EXPERIENCE AND THEORY: FROM HABERMAS TO GOPAL GURU BY SUNDAR SARUKKAI ; 3. UNDERSTANDING EXPERIENCE BY SUNDAR SARUKKAI ; 4. EXPERIENCE, SPACE AND JUSTICE BY GOPAL GURU ; 5. EXPERIENCE AND THE ETHICS OF THEORY BY GOPAL GURU ; 6. ETHICS OF THEORIZING BY SUNDAR SARUKKAI ; 7. PHENOMENOLOGY OF UNTOUCHABILITY BY SUNDAR SARUKKAI ; 8. ARCHAEOLOGY OF UNTOUCHABILITY BY GOPAL GURU ; REFERENCES ; INDEX.