Overview
- Presents innovative theory about the nature of the Secular and Trans-Secular
- Describes how to bridge these two often competing intellectual schemes
- Interdisciplinary approach that utilizes modernism, labour studies, and Feminism Secular
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About this book
This book facilitates a missing dialogue between the secular and the transsecular dimensions of human existence. It explores two kinds of limits of the secular: the inadequacies of its assumptions with respect to the total being of the human, and how it curbs the ontological sensibilities of the human. Kaustuv Roy argues that since secular reason of modernity can only represent the empirical dimension of existence, humans are forced to privatize the non-empirical dimension of being. It is therefore absent from the social, imaginary, as well as public discourse. This one-sidedness is the root cause of many of the ills facing modernity. Roy contends that a bridge-consciousness that praxeologically relates the secular and the non-secular domains of experience is the need of the hour.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kaustuv Roy is professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India. He earned his Ph.D from Michigan State University and taught at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. His previous books include Teachers in Nomadic Spaces and Neighborhoods of the Plantation: War, Politics and Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Limits of the Secular
Book Subtitle: Social Experience and Cultural Memory
Authors: Kaustuv Roy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48698-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-48697-0Published: 19 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83997-4Published: 05 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48698-7Published: 09 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 223
Topics: Secularism, Philosophy of Man, Feminism