Browsing by Author "Giri, Ananta"
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Area of study as a discursive field: some notes on method and an inquiry into the challenge of moral education
Giri, Ananta (2010-03-29)This is a paper on the nature of modern academic disciplines and an inquiry into the origin of their boundaries in the discourse of modernity and their contemporary inadequacy in the face of the challenges of the present ... -
Connected criticism and the womb of tradition
Giri, Ananta (2010-03-27)The present paper is an inquiry into the possibility of criticism of tradition on its own terms, which however leads to its desired transformation. The paper discusses two types of such connected criticism philosophical ... -
The conquest of self? intimacy and the overcoming of boundaries
Giri, Ananta (2010-03-28)The present paper looks at the changes taking place at present in the realm of intimacy and human sexuality in Europe and North America. The paper presents the description of such changes as offered by Anthony Giddens, an ... -
Democratic transition and the challenge of transformation
Giri, Ananta (2010-03-27)Ours is an age of democracy. Democracy as a form of government, characterized by elections and the installation of a representative government, has been becoming a global phenomenon. The fall of the socialist world and ... -
Dialectic between globalization and localization: economic restructuring women and strategies of cultural reproduction
Giri, Ananta (2010-04-08)The economic arrangement of all social systems is now in the midst of a fundamental restructuring, necessitated by the crisis of varieties of command economies and bureaucratic regulation of production, distribution and ... -
Psychology and the challenge of the postmodern condition
Giri, Ananta (2010-03-29)We are living in the midst of very fundamental processes of transformation which are global in nature and which touch almost all the domains of our lives, transforming both the contours of our lives and the horizons of our ... -
Quest for a universal morality: Jurgen Habermas and Sri Aurobindo
Giri, Ananta (2010-03-29)Morals in the sociological and anthropological discourse have been looked at as a construction of culture and as an appendage of social norms. In the conventional sense, moral development culture. But such a notion of ... -
Religious movement in the contemporary united states
Giri, Ananta (2010-04-17)The present paper describes the vision and practice of different religious movements in the contemporary United States such as Moral Majority and Habitat for Humanity. This description is presented with a view that ... -
Universities and the horizons of the future
Giri, Ananta (2010-03-29)Ours is a time of fundamental changes. Changes in our economy and politics, revolutionary manifestation of new technologies and the whole host of contemporary forces are shattering our taken-for-granted assumptions about ...