Cross-fertilizing roots and routes : identities, social creativity, cultural regeneration and planetary realizations

Cross-fertilizing roots and routes : identities, social creativity, cultural regeneration and planetary realizations / Ananta Kumar Giri, editor.

The book discusses how we can cross-fertilize relationship between roots and routes with and beyond the logic of closure, monological assertions and violence. The book draws upon multiple philosophical, historical, religious and spiritual traditions of the world to rethink our conceptions and produc...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Singapore] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Subjects:
Self.
Identity (Psychology)
Philosophy, Modern.
Ethnology > Asia.
Ego (Psychology)
Self
Philosophy, Modern
Culture
Ethnology
Asia
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Notes on Editor and Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • 1 Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: An Introduction and an Invitation
  • Part I Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Self, Social Creativity and Reconstitution of Identities
  • 2 Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Ethnicity, Sociocultural Regeneration, and Planetary Realizations
  • Introduction and Invitation
  • Ethnicity, Cultural Rights, and Cultural Regeneration: In Between Root and Routes
  • Beyond Culturalist Holism and Ethnic Absolutism
  • Creating Cultures, Spaces, and Politics of Hospitality
  • Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations
  • References
  • 3 Earth and World: Roots and Routes
  • 4 First and Second Nature
  • Introduction
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • Religion in Its Place
  • Disambiguating Togetherness
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 Cosmopoesis: Navigating the Strangeness of Planetary Realizations
  • Macro Perspectives on Strangeness
  • Roots and Routes
  • Dharma: Universal and Local
  • Challenging Parameters
  • A Neohumanist Evolutionary Model
  • Human Evolution Is Human Consciousness
  • Cosmopoesis
  • Conclusion
  • The Problem with Bounded Identity Models: Giri's Approach
  • In Dialogue with Sarkar and Rifkin
  • Sarkar's Neo-Humanism
  • Rifkin on Empathy
  • In Dialogue: Giri, Sarkar and Rifkin
  • References
  • 8 Deconstructing and Reconstructing Identity: A Transformational Transcontinental Journey
  • The Story
  • Phase 1: The Underground Rebel
  • Phase 2: The Artist
  • Phase 3: The Healer
  • Phase 4: The Carer
  • Phase 5: The Scholar
  • The Phases of Identity Deconstruction and Re-Construction
  • Four Challenges to Translocal Identity Construction
  • CLA Analysis of Identity Formation Embedded in a Macrohistory Context
  • References
  • 9 There Is a Thread That You Follow: Identity, Journey and Destiny
  • Questions for the Journey
  • The Unsettling of All Contexts: From Canada to India Through Liminal Space and into Privilege
  • The Liminality of Encounter and Dialogue: S. Jeyapragasam and the Nonviolence of the Heart
  • The Journey in Question: Loneliness and Solitude
  • Identity Lost: Endings That Begin Again
  • Bibliography
  • Part II Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: New Possibilities with Philosophy, History, Anthropology and Literature

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