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Social Theory and Asian Dialogues

Cultivating Planetary Conversations

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Editors:
  1. Ananta Kumar Giri

    1. Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India

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  • Addresses the euro-centric bias of classical and contemporary social theory

  • Argues for a transcending of the self-certainties and partial truths of East and West in a global engagement of the intellectual community

  • Offers a trans-national and comparative approach on ethics and social action in considering the future of social theory

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: An Introduction and an Invitation

    • Ananta Kumar Giri
    Pages 1-5

  3. Theorizing as Dancing Transformations: Social Theory, Asian Dialogues and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations

      • Ananta Kumar Giri
      Pages 9-33

    3. Theorizing Alternative Futures of Asia: Activating Enabling Traditions

      • Marcus Bussey
      Pages 35-47

    4. Critical Theory After the Rise of the Global South

      • Boike Rehbein
      Pages 49-67

    5. Beyond Ethnocentrism: Towards a Global Social Theory

      • Hans-Herbert Kögler, Ľubomír Dunaj
      Pages 69-106

  4. Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Creative Engagement and Transformative Learning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Selfhood and Morality: East Asian and Western Dimensions

      • Geir Sigurðsson
      Pages 109-125

    3. Iridescent Self in the Womb of the Wholly M(O)ther: A Vajrayani Meditation

      • Neela Bhattacharya Saxena
      Pages 127-144

    4. The Taijitu, Western Dialectics and Brain Hemisphere Function: A Dialogue Facilitated by the Scholarship of Complex Integration

      • Gary P. Hampson
      Pages 145-172

    5. A Middle Way of Emptying Dualism in Social Theory

      • Chou Ping
      Pages 173-211

    6. Indo-Chinese Knowledge and Wisdom: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between Confucius and Tiruvalluvar

      • S. Panneerselvam
      Pages 213-232

    7. Dancing East and West: Charting Intercultural Possibilities in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

      • Marcus Bussey
      Pages 233-248

    8. The Micropolitics and Metaphysics of Mobility and Nomadism: A Comparative Study of Rahul Sankrityayan’s Ghumakkaṛ Śāstra and Gilles Deleuze / Félix Guattari’s “Nomadology”

      • Subir Rana
      Pages 249-270

    9. From Ecological Ontology to Social Ecology: John Dewey, Radhakamal Mukerjee, and Interscalar Ethics

      • Betsy Taylor, Herbert G. Reid
      Pages 271-286

  5. Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Asia, Europe and the Call of Planetary Conversions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287
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    2. Nature, Culture and the Debate with Modernity: Critical Social Theory in Japan

      • John Clammer
      Pages 289-315

    3. The Self-Description of Society in East Asia: If It Is Not Society, What Else Could It Be?

      • Saburo Akahori
      Pages 317-327

    4. An Intercultural Perspective on Chinese Aesthetics

      • Karl-Heinz Pohl
      Pages 329-341
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About this book

Critically exploring the presuppositions of contemporary social theory, this collection argues for a trans-civilizational dialogue and a deepening of the universe of intellectual discourse in order to transform sociology into a truly planetary conversation on the human condition. Focusing on perspectives from Asia, notably East Asia and India, it interrogates presuppositions in contemporary critical social theory about man, culture and society, and considers central themes such as knowledge and power, knowledge and liberation. The diverse contributions tackle key questions such the globalization of social theory, identity and society in east asia, as well as issues such as biopolitics, social welfare and eurocentrism. They also examine dialogues along multiple trajectories between social theorists from the Euro-American world and from the Asian universe, such as between Kant and Gandhi, Habermas and Sri Aurobindo, the Bildung tradition in Europe and the Confucian traditions. Arguing for a global comparative engagement and cross-cultural dialogue, this is a key read for all those interested in the future of social theory in the wake of globalization and the rise of the global south.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India

    Ananta Kumar Giri

About the editor

Ananta Kumar Giri is on the faculty of the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research at universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University in Denmark, the University of Kentucky, USA, the University of Freiburg & Humboldt University, Germany and Jagiellonian University in Poland. His research interests lie in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Theory and Asian Dialogues

  • Book Subtitle: Cultivating Planetary Conversations

  • Editors: Ananta Kumar Giri

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7095-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7094-5Published: 16 April 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3914-1Published: 26 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7095-2Published: 30 March 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 472

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Social Theory, Globalization, Asian Culture

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