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1st Edition

Building Bridges Between Indian Philosophy and Latin American Philosophy

Edited By Kim Diaz, Ajay Verma, Jules Simon Copyright 2027

352 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge India

Description

This volume examines the similarities between the Indian and Latin American philosophical traditions while also highlighting how these similarities have materialized differently in the Indian or in the Latin American context. The essays in the volume use identifiable conceptual categories that not only pairs some of the Indian philosophical works with corresponding Latin American philosophical... Read more

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Perspectives from Indian Philosophy

1. The Plight of Academic Philosophy in India

Gaddam Mihira

2. Women in Advaita: Three Historical Women Advaitins of Tamil Nadu: A Brief Study

Kanchana Natarajan

3. Feminist Churning in Contemporary India

Sunaina Arya

4. Language, Tradition and Authority in Classical Indian Philosophy

Ajay Verma

5. An Exploration of different facets of Indigenous Philosophy

Ayesha Gautam

6. In Search of Liberation: Womanhood in Early Buddhism

Hina Chandna

7. Bhimrao Ambedkar and the Fate of Pragmatism in India

Scott Stroud

Part Two: Perspectives from Latin American Philosophy

8. Lessons from Zapatista Luis Villoro on how the Left can be become corrupted and how to avoid it?

Gregory Pappas

9. The Ethnic Question in the Eyes of Three Guatemalan Philosophers: Antonio Gallo, Mario Payeras, and Mario Roberto Morales

Amílcar Dávila

10. Border Narratives: Towards a Methodology of Lived Experiences

Evan Adolfo Lopez

11. U.S.-Mexico Border Identities and the Problem of Representation: The Power of Testimonios to Create Filósofas

Manuela Alejandra Gomez

12. Political Identity and Cultural Identity: Latin America’s dispensable dilemma

Hernando A. Estévez

13. Love in Cultivating Latinx Communities

Daniel Campos

Part Three: Building Bridges Between Latin American and Indian Philosophy

14. Octavio Paz’s Anti-Colonial Bridge Building: from Mexico City to Delhi

Jules Simon

15. Ismael Quiles, a Bridge Between Latin America and Asia

Mariano Iturbe

16. Difference Logic ∂∫: An Intersectional Logic for Human Learning

Juan Ferret

17. Latin American Philosophy and Mindfulness: Transforming the U.S. Justice System

Kim Diaz

18. Sustainability in India Addressed by the Dialogical Approach of Paulo Freire

Shantanu Rojatkar

Editor(s)

Biography

Ajay Verma, Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Kim Díaz, El Paso Community College, USA Jules Simon, El Paso Community College, USA

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