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Explorations in Critical Humanities: A Collection of Essays

Explorations in Critical Humanities: A Collection of Essays

$46.00
Author:Edited by Sreenath Muraleedharan K and Devi K
ISBN 13:9789386385536
Year:2017
Subject:Language and literature

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Explorations in Critical Humanities: A Collection of Essays undertakes to analyze the processes of social inclusion and exclusion under the changed scenario of global integration. There are deliberations on different topics and issues with a view to revise our critical apparatus in ways that are transculturally effective and socially embedded. These essays explore the problems and potentials for critiquing the domain of humanities. In the present glocal context characterized by international flows of political cultures, capital and power structures, it has become increasingly difficult to occupy a firm vantage point from which critique might be exercised. This has become a problem both in the academy as well as in the public discourse since global processes are experienced as quasi-autonomous and beyond regulation and critical intervention due to systematic over-complexity. Moreover, the export of Western paradigms into non-Western cultural context also poses itself to be problematic. On top of all, central to any critical procedure is the objective to promote justice and emancipatory social transformation. Accordingly, these papers carve out a satisfactory methodological paradigm hinging on the ethical, philosophical, political and cultural experiences/demands of the twenty first century, which together envisage an interdisciplinary exchange of explorations. In general, the focus is on how methodologies of humanities grapple the