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- ISBN 9781032640341
- Weight: 890g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores the act of thinking as a living journey and re-examines the fields of social thoughts as conversations. It draws upon known sources of social thought in fields such as sociology but cultivates it in transdisciplinary and border-crossing ways by documenting and presenting the ideas of major thinkers and social activists in their social contexts and histories. It argues that the act of thinking is not an isolated activity, although it has its own dimension of meditative solitude which is accompanied by different circles and movements of relational engagement. It then cultivates an Upanishadic way of social life and social theorizing planting pioneering seeds of an Upanishadic sociology and an ecology of hope which embodies planetary conversations across borders. Social Thought as Conversations: A New Upanishad of Life and an Ecology of Hope is an outstanding work of our times which will be of interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy and the social sciences in general.
Ananta Kumar Giri is the Founding Honorary Executive Trustee of Vishwaneedam Centre for Asian Blossoming, Puducherry and Chennai and a former professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change; criticism, creativity, and contemporary dialectics of transformation; theories of self, culture, and society; and creative streams in education, philosophy, and literature. Professor Giri has written, edited, co-edited, and translated more than six dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998), Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations (2013), Bahudhara Barnabiva (Splendrous Beauty of the Plural, 2021), The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (2023), Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation (Editor, 2025), Cultivating Gardens of God: A Paradigm Shift in Faith (Editor, 2025), Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy (Editor, Routledge, 2024), Social Healing (2023), Cultivating Integral Development (2023), Corporate Spiritual Responsibility (Co-Editor, 2026) and Quest for Planetary Well-Being: Essays in Honor of MV Nadkarni (Co-Editor, 2026).
