Knowledge And Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations (key Issues In Modern Sociology)
by Ananta Kumar Giri /
2013 / English / PDF
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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).
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).
