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S'il est vrai que l'identité des civilisations reste liée dans une large mesure à une problématique des origines, les perspectives d'analyse que mobilisent à son propos les disciplines dominantes des sciences de l'Homme et de la Société sont encore loin du bel unisson rêvé par leurs protagonistes. D'Alembert, dans son discours préliminaire à la Grande Encyclopédie, marquait déjà la discordance, classant les premières dans la philosophie et les secondes dans l'histoire. La distinction de deux domaines au sein d'un même intitulé continue aujourd'hui d'en porter témoignage. A la paléontologie et à la préhistoire s'opposerait alors la sociologie. Celle-ci, partie de la multiplicité et de l'observation les découperait pour constituer des typologies et remonter ensuite jusqu'à des formes élémentaires. Celles-là, guidées par des échantillons directeurs exhumeraient de leurs chantiers de fouilles les traces interrompues du passé, reconstruisant les itinéraires et les empreintes d'une humanité initiale pour laisser à l'archéologie et à l'histoire le soin d'établir les liens avec des périodes moins reculées dont les trajets recoupent rarement ceux qu'elles avaient relevés.

"This book engages in a dialogue with Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (K.C. Bhattacharyya, KCB 1875-1949) and presents a vista of contemporary Indian philosophy. KCB is one of the founding fathers of contemporary Indian philosophy; a distinct genre of philosophy that draws both on classical Indian philosophical sources and on Western materials, old and new. His work offers both a new and different reading of classical Indian texts, and at the same time he is a unique commentator of Kant and Hegel. The book (re)introduces KCB's philosophy, identifies the novelty of his thinking, and highlights different dimensions of his oeuvre, with special emphasis on freedom as a concept and striving, extending from the metaphysical to the political (or the postcolonial). The contributors to this book decipher KCB's distinct vocabulary (demand, feeling, alternation) and revisit his discussion of Rasa aesthetics. The chapters offer a bird's eye view of his corpus to ascertain if and how its different compartments converge and illuminate the place of the body in his phenomenological inquiry toward "the subject as freedom". The book situates him between classics (Abhinavagupta) and thinkers inspired by his thought (Daya Krishna) and discuss his lectures on Samkhya and Yoga rather than projecting him solely under the rubric of Vedanta. Finally, the book analyzes if and how KCB's philosophical work is relevant to the discourse today, from the problem of other minds to freedoms in the social and political spheres. This book will be of interest to academics studying Indian and comparative philosophy, philosophy of language and mind, phenomenology without borders, and political and postcolonial philosophy"--

This book deals with the philosophy of Daya Krishna, an Indian philosopher of the twentieth century. It discusses the central issues in Daya Krishna's early philosophy as a synthesis of the Indian and Western philosophical methods. It presents problems of the past and the present in a holistic frame of creative philosophizing. It provides a glimpse into the issues human beings face in all vital areas of human civilization. It discusses the nature of philosophy and the philosophical method in Daya Krishna's syncretic philosophy. Issues such as self and freedom and ethics and religion are explored in the chapters. It is of interest to those who are engaged with Indian philosophy and Indian philosophers of the twentieth century and especially to those whose interest lies in understanding the cultural East and its philosophical responses to the cultural West.

In affirming its Asiatic ambitions, India is building a strategic identity through a series of regional power balances which integrate both Russian and American allies. Her position as a regional pivot is allowing the country progressively to assert a pro-active strategic posture, supported by widening democracy and a developing economy.