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This book explores the act of thinking as a living journey and re-examines the fields of social thoughts as conversations. It draws upon known sources of social thought in fields such as sociology but cultivates it in transdisciplinary and border-crossing ways by documenting and presenting the ideas of major thinkers and social activists in their social contexts and histories. It argues that the act of thinking is not an isolated activity, although it has its own dimension of meditative solitude which is accompanied by different circles and movements of relational engagement. It then cultivates an Upanishadic way of social life and social theorizing planting pioneering seeds of an Upanishadic sociology and an ecology of hope which embodies planetary conversations across borders. Social Thought as Conversations: A New Upanishad of Life and an Ecology of Hope is an outstanding work of our times which will be of interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy and the social sciences in general.
Contents
Introduction - Thoughts Are Not Walking Alone: An Invitation and Introduction to Social Thought as Conversations
Part One: Social Thought as Conversations
1. Walking with Benedict Spinoza and Polishing Our Stubborn Lenses
2. Rethinking and Transforming Language, Self, Society and State: Walking and Meditating with Sri Aurobindo
3. A New Morning with Chitta Ranjan: Adventures in Co Realizations and World Transformations
4. Symbolic Anthropology of Clifford Geertz and Beyond
5. Sociology as Perennial Seeking: Walking with the Inspiring Hands of S.N. Eisenstadt
6. Philosophy, Sociology and History: Walking and Meditating with Karl-Otto Apel, Alain Touraine and Ranajit Guha
7. Sociology as Cultivation of Creative Personality, Freedom, and Plurality: Walking with S.P. Nagendra
8. A Conversation with Krishna Raj
9. The Calling of a New Struggle: A Conversation with Gaddar
10. Evergreen Revolution and a New Ecology of Hope: A Conversation with M.S. Swaminathan
11. C.T. Kurien: Poverty, Spirituality, and Transdisciplinarity
12. Beyond Ego's Domain: Walking and Meditating with Ramashroy Roy
Part Two: Social Thought as Conversations: Further Explorations
13. Surrender in the Chambal Valley and Our Alternative Planetary Futures
14. Ram Mandir, Sita's Kitchen, and Kashmir
15. Beyond the New Indian Farm Laws: Farmers Protests and Evergreen Revolution in India
16. Beyond Fear and Trembling; New Springs of Solidarity
17. Violence and Non-Violence
18. Truth, God, Justice and Ahimsa: Walking and Meditating with Gandhi
19. Towards a New Sociology of Mobilizations
20. Indigenous Education and the Calling of Transformations
21. Face to Face: Towards a New Mutuality?
22. Towards Rainbows of Identities and Planetary Realizations
23. Globalizing our Hearts: Struggles for Peace, Justice, and Solidarity
24. Dropping Out and a New Dance of Learning, Freedom, and Co-Creation
25. Sociology and the Calling of Love and Wisdom
26. National Education Policy of India: Learning, Languages and Translations and the Calling of a New Bharat Hind Viswa Yatra
Part Three: Social Thought as Conversations: Adventures of Ideas and Co-Operative Search for Truth
27. Gift of Knowledge and the Art of Seeking Together: Towards a Festival of Co-Realizations
28. Towards a New Art of Integration
Part Four: Sociology as a New Upanishad of Life
29. Poetry and New Sociological Imaginations
Part Five: Social Thought as Conversations
30. Reviews and Reflections in Borderlands and Horizons
Part Six: An Epilogue and An Afterword
Epilogue: Letter to a Young Researcher
Afterword
