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Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations (Key Issues in Modern Sociology) - Softcover

Giri, Ananta Kumar

 
9781783083275: Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1783083271 ISBN 13: 9781783083275
Publisher: Anthem Press, 2014

Synopsis

Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self.  It is a multidimensional struggle and aspiration in which knowledge – self, social and spiritual – can play a transformative role. ‘Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations’ undertakes such a journey of transformation, and seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis the familiar themes of human interest, critical theory, enlightenment, ethnography, democracy, pluralism, rationality, secularism and cosmopolitanism. The volume also features a Foreword by John Clammer (United Nations University, Tokyo) and an Afterword by Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame).

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About the Author

Ananta Kumar Giri is an associate professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Chennai, India.

 

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Publisher
Anthem Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1783083271
ISBN 13 
9781783083275
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
332