Chattopadhyaya Amiya Dev (1 results)
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Published by Centre for Stud in Civilizat, New Delhi 2009
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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Foreword/D.P. Chattopadhyaya. Preface. General introduction/D.P. Chattopadhyaya. In Lieu of an introduction/Amiya Dev. I. Issues in focus 1. Crisis in science/Satyendranath Bose. 2. A miracle of rare device the genius of scientific discovery/V. Balakrishnan. 3. Mathematics and the purs…uit of beauty/M.S. Raghunathan. 4. Story of a discovery/Somenath Biswas. 5. Cognition in science and art the case for virtual reality/Mihir Chakraborty. 6. Science and the aesthetics of language/Sundar Sarukkai. 7. Science and literature/Syed A. Sayeed. 8. From world to word truth in science and in literature/Mohini Mullick. 9. The concept of order in science and poetry/Mario J. Valdes. 10. Transformation of science into poetry apropos Rabindranath Tagore/Pabitrakumar Roy. 11. Characterizations in linguistic science/Probal Dasgupta. 12. The biology of music Sobhillu Saptaswara/D. Balasubramanian. 13. The aesthetics of music/Mukund Lath. 14. Play pleasure pain ownerless emotions in Rasa aesthetics/Arindam Chakrabarti. 15. Freedom and the body/Parthasarathi Banerjee. 16. Disarticulating the senses a speculation on a scientific discovery and cinema/Aniket Jaaware. 17. The diagram of Vastu Purusa Mandala from meaning to measurement/Sanil V. 18. All that is solid melts into air or is perceiving sensuously a science or an art/Ipshita Chanda. 19. Science literature and aesthetics epistemic transgressions homologies antinomies/TRS Sharma. II. World thought systems some instances 20. From Cowrie shells to the pearl Indian grammar and Panini's Astadhyayi/Kapil Kapoor. 21. The world outside on the world inside a study of the Laukika Nyaya s in grammar/Rama Nath Sharma. 22. Interacting with hydraulic resources early Indian experience/Ranabir Chakravarti. 23. Navya Nyaya language as a medium of sciences/Amita Chatterjee. 24. Chindian realm of freedom/Tan Chung. 25. Mythos logos and the good beyond being in Plato's aesthetic theory/Steven Shankman. 26. Persian poetic wisdom and the epistemology of knowledge by presence/Hossein Ziai. 27. The interplay of science art and literature in Islamic societies before 1700/Sonja Brentjes. 28. Renaissance science and the science of art/Sukanta Chaudhuri. 29. Truth and intelligibility/Nirmalangshu Mukherji. 30. Organic evolution and social progress Darwin revisited/Abhijit Guha. 31. The incomplete Marx/Asok Sen. 32. Defining terror a Freudian exercise/Sibaji Bandyopadhyay. 33. The unity of knowledge Foucault's archaeology between science and literature/Pravu Mazumdar. 34. Literature and the Scientific in Meiji Japan centring around Emerson's influence/Mizuno Tatsuro. 35. Rationality reality and Utopia an African interface/Ansu Datta. III. Indian modernity some instances 36. The nineteenth century Bengali mind/Alok Ray. 37. The transition in Maharashtra/Sadananda More. 38. Modernity and knowledge production Malayalam thought process in the modern period/P.P. Raveendran. 39. The Aham and Puram of Tamil Culture perspectives on Tamil modernity/Sridhar K. 40. Sacred time secular space the printed Oriya Almanac/Jatindra Kumar Nayak. 41. Modern Assamese thought/Ranjit Kumar Dev Goswami. 42. Between experiment and Sadhana towards an understanding of Gandhiji's observances/Tridip Suhrud. 43. Rabindranath Tagore and the two cultures/Ashish Lahiri. Index. The volumes of the Project on the History of Science Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India's heritage and present them in an interrelated way. In spite of their unitary look these volumes recognize the difference between the areas of material civilization and those of ideational culture. The project is not being executed by a single group of thinkers and writers who are methodologically uniform or ideologically identical in their commitments. The project is marked by what may be called methodological pluralism. Inspite of its primarily historical character this project both in its conceptualization and execution has been.
