Desire and Liberation
Biography of a Text by Vaddera Chandidas
Price: 995.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199481934
Publication date:
05/01/2018
Hardback
228 pages
Price: 995.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199481934
Publication date:
05/01/2018
Hardback
228 pages
Edited by A. Raghuramraju
A. Raghuramaraju has curated and edited this volume, which proposes a major breakthrough in the field of philosophical studies. The volume reproduces not only Desire and Liberation and Kalidas Bhattacharyya’s introduction to it, but also the letters that Bhattacharyya wrote to Chandidas, and Chandidas’s own commentary on his text. In Desire and Liberation Vaddera Chandidas creates a new metaphysical system. The author rejects major convergences in philosophy from both India and the West, especially on the ontological primacy of non-being that results in permanence. He is especially opposed to the idea of permanence, which renders unreliable anything that is not permanent but changing. Chandidas points out that contradictoriness is the structural ‘tinge’ of reality.
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Edited by A. Raghuramraju
Description
In Desire and Liberation Vaddera Chandidas creates a new metaphysical system. He bases this new system on earlier Indian traditions of sutra literature. The author rejects major convergences in philosophy from both India and the West, especially on the ontological primacy of non-being that results in permanence, which he posits as a mere project of the intellect. He is especially opposed to the idea of permanence, which renders unreliable anything that is not permanent but changing. Thus, desire, which is not permanent, is marginalized. Chandidas points out that contradictoriness is the structural ‘tinge’ of reality. Therefore, in his philosophy all that is claimed to be permanent is marginal and derivative of the intellect.
A. Raghuramaraju has curated and edited this volume, which proposes a major breakthrough in the field of philosophical studies. The volume reproduces not only Desire and Liberation and Kalidas Bhattacharyya’s introduction to it, but also the letters that Bhattacharyya wrote to Chandidas, and Chandidas’s own commentary on his text.
About the Editor
A. Raghuramraju is presently Guest Faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India. His publications include Modern Frames and Premodern Themes in Indian Philosophy: Border, Self and the Other (2017), Debating Vivekananda: A Reader (as editor, 2015), and Philosophy and India: Ancestors, Outsiders and Predecessors (2014)
Edited by A. Raghuramraju
Table of contents
Introduction: Life and Times of a Modern Indian
Philosophical Text 1
A. Raghuramaraju
desire and liberation: The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology 17
Vaddera Chandidas
desire and liberation: The Nuances of Cosmicontology in a Dialogic Form 55
Vaddera Chandidas
Introduction to Vaddera Chandidas’s desire and liberation:
The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology, 1975 187
Kalidas Bhattacharyya
Letters from Kalidas Bhattacharyya to Vaddera Chandidas 203
Index 215
About the Author 221
Edited by A. Raghuramraju
Edited by A. Raghuramraju
Description
In Desire and Liberation Vaddera Chandidas creates a new metaphysical system. He bases this new system on earlier Indian traditions of sutra literature. The author rejects major convergences in philosophy from both India and the West, especially on the ontological primacy of non-being that results in permanence, which he posits as a mere project of the intellect. He is especially opposed to the idea of permanence, which renders unreliable anything that is not permanent but changing. Thus, desire, which is not permanent, is marginalized. Chandidas points out that contradictoriness is the structural ‘tinge’ of reality. Therefore, in his philosophy all that is claimed to be permanent is marginal and derivative of the intellect.
A. Raghuramaraju has curated and edited this volume, which proposes a major breakthrough in the field of philosophical studies. The volume reproduces not only Desire and Liberation and Kalidas Bhattacharyya’s introduction to it, but also the letters that Bhattacharyya wrote to Chandidas, and Chandidas’s own commentary on his text.
About the Editor
A. Raghuramraju is presently Guest Faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India. His publications include Modern Frames and Premodern Themes in Indian Philosophy: Border, Self and the Other (2017), Debating Vivekananda: A Reader (as editor, 2015), and Philosophy and India: Ancestors, Outsiders and Predecessors (2014)
Table of contents
Introduction: Life and Times of a Modern Indian
Philosophical Text 1
A. Raghuramaraju
desire and liberation: The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology 17
Vaddera Chandidas
desire and liberation: The Nuances of Cosmicontology in a Dialogic Form 55
Vaddera Chandidas
Introduction to Vaddera Chandidas’s desire and liberation:
The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology, 1975 187
Kalidas Bhattacharyya
Letters from Kalidas Bhattacharyya to Vaddera Chandidas 203
Index 215
About the Author 221