R. Radhakrishnan

R. E. Asher

A reader for non-Tamil-speaking students.

A Tamil Prose Reader

K. C. Baral

Contributed articles previously published in several journals on the philosophy of Jacques Derrida, 1930-2004.

Essays in Critical Praxis

Theory After Derrida

Kailash C. Baral

A critical anthology that re-examines Jacques Derrida’s thought by way of theory and praxis, this volume reflects on his striking legacy and the future of theory. Among contemporary thinkers, Derrida challenges not only our ways of thinking but also hitherto methods of inquiry. This book captures how Derrida renovates and re-energises philosophy by questioning the fundamental assumptions of Western philosophical thought. By doing so, he exposes the intricate lie behind binaries, such as speech/writing, nature/culture, male/female, black/white, literature/criticism, etc., which have continued to shape our worldview, where a hegemonic centre is always already in place dominating or marginalising the ‘other’. A significant contribution to literary theory, this book explores not only the status of Derrida’s contribution as a critical thinker but also the status of critical theory as such in the contemporary milieu. The central question that it asks is whether we should dismiss Derrida as a thinker who espoused an extreme form of relativism, bordering on nihilism, or has he something fundamental to contribute to the future of theory. Could it be that deconstruction is not destruction but a possibility that casts doubts on whether the present can have faith in future? This second edition includes a new Postscript and addresses some important concerns of our times, such as religious practice, art and aesthetics, translation, sociology of philosophy, and democracy. Scholars and researchers of English literature, philosophy, sociology and cultural studies will find this work particularly interesting.

Theory after Derrida

DIVTheoretical investigation into the place of historicization in humanistic thought, as well as into the complex, and often tense, relationship between history and theory./div

History, the Human, and the World Between

This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and theglobal proposes that theory should embody unevenness as symptomeven as it envisions strategies to get beyond unevenness.Radhakrishnan's thought-provoking engagement with theorists andwriters from around the world will fascinate readers across a widerange of disciplines. A major intervention into debates about the postcolonial andthe global. Proposes that theory bear the burden of unevenness even as itseeks a way out of it - neither captive to the world as it is, nornaively credulous of visions of the world as it should be, theoryargues for an ethics of persuasion that is firmly rooted inpolitical resistance. Engages with a wide range of theorists and writers from aroundthe world. Ranges over fields as diverse as critical theory,postmodernism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, minoritystudies, cultural studies and anthropology.

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