Reading Derrida with Daya Krishna: Postmodern Trends in Contemporary Indian Philosophy
In his published lectures Civilizations: Nostalgia and Utopia (2012), Daya Krishna criticizes postmodern thought and especially the writings of Jacques Derrida. By outlining similarities between the two, I would claim that, indeed, it was Daya Krishna's unexpected proximity to Derrida's d...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Springer Netherlands
[2018]
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Sophia
Jahr: 2018, Band: 57, Heft: 3, Seiten: 425-442 |
| RelBib Classification: | KBM Asien TK Neueste Zeit VA Philosophie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Deconstruction
B Dialogue B Daya Krishna B Contemporary Indian philosophy B Jacques Derrida B Academia |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In his published lectures Civilizations: Nostalgia and Utopia (2012), Daya Krishna criticizes postmodern thought and especially the writings of Jacques Derrida. By outlining similarities between the two, I would claim that, indeed, it was Daya Krishna's unexpected proximity to Derrida's deconstruction' project that triggered his scathing critique of the latter. Moreover, Daya Krishna's response to Derrida reveals an ongoing inner conflict in his own thinking. On the one hand, he provides us with a harsh critique of Derrida the postmodern'; on the other hand, he concedes that the modern' notion of knowledge has been totally transformed, and the deconstruction' of its old formulations was the major catalyst that provoked and directed his own philosophical enterprise in the last years of his life, reformulating knowledges (in the plural). Reconstructing in this way, the dialogue which never happened might prove beneficial, not only for understanding the distinctive works of its participants, but also for carrying their writings and us one step further towards a productive, relevant' philosophical discourse in the twenty-first century. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-018-0677-2 |