Indian Philosophy: Past and Present – serie

This book engages with aesthetics and ethics in North-East India. It involves the reader in indigenous knowledge and philosophy. It reflects upon the experiences of fieldwork and the observations made by field researchers. It thoroughly examines the neglected area of the study of women in aesthetic and ethical discourses within the ethnic life world.  Its significance lies in addressing marginalized subjects—women on the one hand and aesthetics-ethics on the other. Highlighting the importance of particularity, the book presents studies of more than 15 ethnic communities of North-East India, capturing indigenous thoughts, connections and linkages among different ethnicities. The book is an important read for students and researchers interested in ethnic philosophy and aesthetics.

The book theorizes yogic Gnosticism, as a South Asian religious undercurrent and as a distinctive form of philosophical practice and ascetic way of life internalizing a sacrificial worldview.

This book delves into the ethics of apophasis across ancient Indian philosophy, pre-Socratic Greek thinkers, and early medieval Christianity. The author also offers insights into the evolution of apophasis in the Western tradition, moving from Heraclitus and early Christianity to medieval Christianity.