1st Edition
Building Bridges Between Indian Philosophy and Latin American Philosophy
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
Biography
Kim Díaz shares Philosophy with her students at El Paso Community College. She studies Latin American & Chicanx Philosophy, Indian, Buddhist and Taoist Philosophies. She is a coeditor of the Philosophy of the Americas Reader: From the Popol Vuh to the Present (2021).
Ajay Kumar Verma is a Professor of Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University. His interests include Indian Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy and Religion. He is the author of From Method to Playfulness to Chaos: A Critique of Postmodernism (2010) and co-editor of Buddha and His Dhamma: A Critical Edition (2011).
Jules Simon is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso and specializes in ethics, aesthetics, religion, and social-political philosophy. He has authored Art and Responsibility: A Phenomenology of the Diverging Paths of Rosenzweig and Heidegger (2011) and co-edited The Thought and Social Engagement in the Mexican-American Philosophy of John H. Haddox (2010).
