The Search for Paradise Foerster Lecture on the Immortality of the Soul
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2025
- This lecture is part of the Foerster Lectures on the Immortality of the Soul series.
This work is part of a decolonizing project-an endeavor that I maintain to be both collective and personal. Colonial history and social science habituated Indians intellectuals to two questionable certitudes. The first was the radical dissimilarity between modern social theory and pre-modern philosophical traditions of other, colonized societies. A second prejudice was the radical inferiority of pre-modern traditions in thinking of solutions to modern human life. In this lecture I shall try to contest both these prejudices by using an analysis of two great traditions of Indian aesthetic-social philosophy: the Upanishads, and Vaisnava theology and poetry.