Exploring Agency In The Mahabharata

Author : Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351061402
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata written by Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-03-19 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata, one of the major epics of India, is a sourcebook complete by itself as well as an open text constantly under construction. This volume looks at transactions between its modern discourses and ancient vocabulary. Located amid conversations between these two conceptual worlds, the volume grapples with the epic’s problematisation of dharma or righteousness, and consequently, of the ideal person and the good life through a cluster of issues surrounding the concept of agency and action. Drawing on several interdisciplinary approaches, the essays reflect on a range of issues in the Mahabharata, including those of duty, motivation, freedom, selfhood, choice, autonomy, and justice, both in the context of philosophical debates and their ethical and political ramifications for contemporary times. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers engaged with philosophy, literature, religion, history, politics, culture, gender, South Asian studies, and Indology. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in South Asian epics and the Mahabharata.

Author : Kanad Sinha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190993456
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra written by Kanad Sinha and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it true that the ancient Indians had no sense of History? The book begins with this question, and points out how the ways of perceiving the past could be culture-specific and how the concept of historical traditions can be useful in studying the various ways of memorising and representing the past, even if those ways do not necessarily correspond to the methodology of the Occidental discipline called 'History'. Ancient India had several historical traditions, and the book focuses on one of them, the itihasa. It also shows how the Mahabharata is the best illustration of this tradition, and how a historical study of the contents of the text, with comparison with and corroboration from other contemporary sources and traditions, may help us restore the text in its original context in the bardic historical tradition about the Later Vedic Kurus. Is the Mahabharata then an authentic history? This book does not claim so. However, it shows how the text had originated as a critical reflection on a great period of transition, how it dealt with the conflicting philosophies of the transitional period, how it propounded its thesis by creating new kinds of heroes such as Yudhisthira and Krsna, and how the text was reworked when it was canonized by the brahmanas.

Author : Brian Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000177424
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata written by Brian Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahābhārata has been explored extensively as a work of mythology, epic poetry, and religious literature, but the text’s philosophical dimensions have largely been under-appreciated by Western scholars. This book explores the philosophical implications of the Mahābhārata by paying attention to the centrality of dialogue, both as the text’s prevailing literary expression and its organising structure. Focusing on five sets of dialogues about controversial moral problems in the central story, this book shows that philosophical deliberation is an integral part of the narrative. Black argues that by paying attention to how characters make arguments and how dialogues unfold, we can better appreciate the Mahābhārata’s philosophical significance and its potential contribution to debates in comparative philosophy today. This is a fresh perspective on the Mahābhārata that will be of great interest to any scholar working in religious studies, Indian/South Asian religions, comparative philosophy, and world literature.

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190878347
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Freud's Mahabharata written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahthe companion volume to Freud's India, Alf Hiltebeitel offers what he calls a "pointillist introduction" to a new theory about the Mah

Author : Rita Banerjee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 935640433X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Political written by Rita Banerjee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-10 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the Elizabethan period as well as contemporary Asian societies. The various interpretations of the original plays focus on the institutions of family and honour, patriarchy, kingship and dynasty, and the emergent ideologies of the nation and cosmopolitanism, adopting a variety of approaches like historicism, presentism, psychoanalysis, feminism and close reading. The volume also looks at Shakespearean adaptations in Asia – Taiwanese, Japanese, Chinese and Indian. Using Douglas Lanier's concept of the 'rhizomatic' approach, it seeks to examine how Asian Shakespearean adaptations, films and stage performances, appropriate and reproduce originals often 'unfaithfully' in different social and temporal contexts to produce independent works of art.

Author : Asha Kaul
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9354351093
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Demystifying Leadership written by Asha Kaul and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can leadership lessons be learnt from the Mahabharata? Demystifying Leadership positively asserts that we can and probes inquiry in the lives of six characters-Bhishma, Ashvatthama, Karna, Shakuni, Kunti and Krishna. It studies these characters in inescapable situations as they navigate through life by demonstrating values, decision-making ability, integrity and principles. Within the given constraints, some of these characters swim and rise, while others sink in moral turpitude. Extrapolating these successful and not-so-successful character traits to corporate leaders and linking them to scholarship, the authors provide lessons for leaders and managers operating in diverse situations. Borrowing from different disciplines, such as literature, philosophy, politics and psychology, Demystifying Leadership proposes to link essentials of leadership in the form of a Leadership Triangle comprising six levels: positive personality, peace with personal identity, purpose, positive use of power and politics, paradoxical leadership and principled pragmatism. It takes a grounded approach in amalgamating mythology and leadership through scholarship and practice.

Author : Katharine R. O'Reilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516180
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ancient Women Philosophers written by Katharine R. O'Reilly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies largely unresearched ideas of ancient women philosophers and recovers their contributions to the history of philosophy.

Author : Udayanath Sahoo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000506819
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Great Indian Epics written by Udayanath Sahoo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a number of seminal studies pre­sented at the International Conference on Great Indian Epics held in February 2019 at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi by scholars from various parts of the world. Each article adds a new dimension to the subject with historical scholarship and critical interpretation, reflecting compre­hensiveness, unity, clarity and rightness of perception. This definitive work adds to our knowledge of the epics and their infinite influence. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : M. Fierke, Karin
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 152922263X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Snapshots from Home written by M. Fierke, Karin and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a broadly interdisciplinary approach, this book provides a unique angle on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for global theory and practice. The book bridges two important debates regarding the relevance of quantum theory to the social sciences, and the pressing need for a more global international relations (IR). It brings the parallels between quantum physics and ancient Asian traditions – Daoism, Buddhism and Hinduism – to an investigation of mind, action and strategy in conditions of radical uncertainty. Engaging with both theory and real-world problems, including climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic and racial inequality, this book explores what it might mean to successfully navigate the potentials of a post-pandemic world.

Author : Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135003925X
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Keywords for India written by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies. Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, Keywords for India brings together more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic collective. Their sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book investigates the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India presents the world with many emancipatory memes from India.