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.
Daniel Raveh is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, Israel. His publications include Exploring the Yogasutra (2012), Sutras, 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¿ Säkara's Doctrine of Maya; 3. Vocabularies of the Heart: Reflecting on Hr¿dayasävada 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; Säkhya and Yoga 8. K.C. Bhattacharyya and Spontaneous Liberation in Säkhya; 9. Bhattacharyya-V¿tti: K.C. Bhattacharyya's Commentary on the Yogasutra; 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