Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma
Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya, Vrinda Dalmiya, Gangeya Mukherji
The Mahabharata, one of the major epics of India, is a sourcebook complete by itself as well as an open text constantly under construction. This volume looks at transactions between its modern discourses and ancient vocabulary. Located amid conversations between these two conceptual worlds, the volume grapples with the epic's problematisation ofdharmaor righteousness, and consequently, of the ideal person and the good life through a cluster of issues surrounding the concept of agency and action. Drawing on several interdisciplinary approaches, the essays reflect on a range of issues in the Mahabharata, including those of duty, motivation, freedom, selfhood, choice, autonomy, and justice, both in the context of philosophical debates and their ethical and political ramifications for contemporary times.
This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers engaged with philosophy, literature, religion, history, politics, culture, gender, South Asian studies, and Indology. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in South Asian epics and the Mahabharata.
This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers engaged with philosophy, literature, religion, history, politics, culture, gender, South Asian studies, and Indology. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in South Asian epics and the Mahabharata.
Thể loại:
Năm:
2018
In lần thứ:
Hardcover
Nhà xuát bản:
Routledge India
Ngôn ngữ:
english
Trang:
254
ISBN 10:
1138709204
ISBN 13:
9781138709201
File:
PDF, 1.98 MB
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english, 2018