Knowledge and Human Liberation
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- ISBN 9780857284525
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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).
Ananta Kumar Giri is an associate professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Chennai, India.
