The cracked mirror : an Indian debate on experience and theory / Gopal Guru, Sundar Sarukkai.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford, 2012.Description: viii, 248 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780198078319
- Indian debate on experience and theory
- 305.0954 GUR 23
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305 SUB Between ethnography and fiction : | 305.0954 DUN Adi and Galo (Abors and Galongs) | 305.0954 GUH Institutions and inequalities : essays in honour of Andre Beteille / | 305.0954 GUR The cracked mirror : | 305.0954 JUD Mapping social exclusion in India : | 305.2350954 LUK Liberalization's children : | 305.242 JEF Timepass : |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-239) and index.
Egalitarianism and the Social Sciences in India / Gopal Guru -- Experience and Theory: From Habermas to Gopal Guru / Sundar Sarukkai -- Understanding Experience / Sundar Sarukkai -- Experience, Space and Justice / Gopal Guru -- Experience and the Ethics of Theory / Gopal Guru -- Ethics of Theorizing / Sundar Sarukkai -- Phenomenology of Untouchability / Sundar Sarukkai -- Archaeology of Untouchability / Gopal Guru.
"This volume explores the relationship between experience and theory in Indian social sciences in the form of a dialogue. It focuses on questions of Dalit experience and untouchability. While Gopal Guru argues that only those who have lived lives as subalterns can represent them accurately, Sundar Sarukkai feels that people located outside the community can also represent them. Thematically divided into five sections, the first discusses the problems associated with theory in the social sciences in the Indian context. The next makes inquiries into the nature of personal and collective experience. The third explores the larger connection between ethics and theory in India, both in the natural and social sciences. The fourth examines the ontological and epistemological nature of experience itself and the politics of experience, and the last focuses on the experience and theory of experience in India. The authors invoke the image of a cracked mirror to suggest a more complex and distorted relation between experience and theory."--Publisher's website.
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