1st Edition
Kotta Satchidananda Murty Life and Ideas of a Modern Indian Philosopher
1. Introduction: Kotta Satchidananda Murty: A Vignette
2. Birth and Family Background
3. Adolescence and Early Publications
4. Education, Marriage, and Parenthood
5. Teaching Assignment and Early Writings
6. Telugu Writings
7. At Andhra University – As a Teacher
8. Publication of the Magnum Opus
9. As Principal
10. Back to Teaching
11. As Vice-chancellor: Administration Refined
12. Return to Andhra University as Seasoned Teacher
13. As Vice-chairman
14. The Last Days
List of K. Satchidananda Murty’s Books
Biography
Ashok Vohra is former Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, and Dean of Arts Faculty, Delhi University. He was the Member Secretary of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research from 1995 to 1998. His publications include: Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mind (1986, 2014), Man, Morals and Self: A Philosophical Perspective (2014), Radhakrishnan: His Life and Ideas (1990), Revelation, Reason and Peace (2020), The Philosophy of K. Satchidananda Murty (1995), Dharma: The Categorial Imperative (2005), Gandhi in the Contemporary Times (2020) and five volumes of The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty viz., Vedanta and Bhagvadgita; Hinduism, Yoga and Indian Culture; Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shintoism; Towards a New Philosophy; and On Education and Philosophy of Education (2024). His Hindi translations of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations (1996); On Certainty (1998); Culture and Value (1998); and Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (2016) have been recognised as ‘scholarly translations’ by International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society.
