Daniel Raveh is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Israel. His publications include Exploring the Yogas¿tra (2012), S¿tras, Stories and Yoga Philosophy (Routledge 2016), and Daya Krishna and Twentieth-Century Indian Philosophy (2020).
Elise Coquereau-Saouma is a research affiliate at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, and Erwin Schrödinger Post-Doctoral Fellow (Austrian Science Fund). Her books Intercultural Dialogues: Conceptions, Divergences and the Limits and Creativity of Knowledge and Intercultural Dialogues: Thinking with Daya Krishna are forthcoming with Routledge.
Entrée Introduction; K.C. Bhattacharyya: A Philosophical Overview; Lexicography 1. The Concept of Demand: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Key to Spiritual Progress; 2. Feeling and Factuality: K.C. Bhattacharyya's¿ Reflections on¿ ¿äkara's Doctrine of M¿y¿; 3. Vocabularies of the Heart: Reflecting on Hr¿dayasäv¿da and Sahr¿daya in Light of K.C. Bhattacharyya's New Commentary on Rasa; Philosophical Junctions 4. Three Absolutes and Four Types of Negation: Integrating Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Insights?; 5. "Felt" Body and "Interiority" of Space in the Thought of Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya; 6. Up Down Backwards on the Stairs of the Self: From Bodily to Spiritual Subjectivity; 7. Between Abhinavagupta and Daya Krishna: Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya on the Problem of Other Minds; S¿¿khya and Yoga 8. K.C. Bhattacharyya and Spontaneous Liberation in S¿¿khya; 9. Bhattacharyya-V¿tti: K.C. Bhattacharyya's Commentary on the Yogas¿tra; Debating Freedom 10. Three Moods in Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya; 11. The Concept of Freedom and Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya; 12. The Problem of Freedom and the Phantasmagoria of Swaraj: Reflections on a Necessary Illusion
This book engages in a dialogue with Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (1875-1949) and presents a vista of contemporary Indian philosophy. It will be of interest to academics studying Indian and comparative philosophy, philosophy of language and mind, phenomenology without borders, and political and postcolonial philosophy.