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Reading Sri Aurobindo

Metaphysics, Ethics and Spirituality

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Editors:
  1. Bindu Puri

    1. Centre for Philosophy, SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

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  • Provides an Introduction to the philosophy and practice of the twentieth century Indian thinker Sri Aurobindo
  • Discusses postmodernity, cultural postmodernism and philosophical postmodernism
  • Presents the ongoing relevance of Sri Aurobindo's vision

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Reading Sri Aurobindo. Towards a Svaraj in Ideas

    • Bindu Puri
    Pages 1-37

  3. Sri Aurobindo and the Idea of Evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Sri Aurobindo’s Hindu Philosophy: Spiritual Evolution of Human Consciousness

      • Hari Shankar Prasad
      Pages 41-81

    3. Man—Towards Its Self-Transcendence—In the Light of Sri Aurobindo

      • Raghunath Ghosh
      Pages 83-89

    4. Boons of Nachiketas and Savitri

      • V. Ananda Reddy
      Pages 91-102

  5. Situating Sri Aurobindo: Modernity and Post-Modernity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Postmodernism and Sri Aurobindo

      • Debashish Banerji
      Pages 137-161

    3. Harmonies of Light: Walking with Rohith Vemula and Sri Aurobindo

      • Monica Gupta
      Pages 163-177

  6. Sri Aurobindo: On the Nation, the State and the Ideal of Human Unity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
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    2. Understanding Aurobindo’s Concept of Nationalism: An Integral Philosophy or a Religious Faith?

      • Reetu Jaiswal
      Pages 181-187

    3. Sri Aurobindo and the Idea of Human Unity

      • Ramin Jahanbegloo
      Pages 189-195

    4. Nation-Soul, State and Unity: Sri Aurobindo and Rabindranath Tagore on the Religion of Humanity

      • Bindu Puri
      Pages 197-219

  8. Sri Aurobindo: On Emotions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247
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About this book

This book presents contemporary perspectives of scholars working on different aspects of the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo- the idea of evolution, integral yoga, the transformation of the individual, society and earth, theories of nation and human unity, philosophy of emotions and ethics of the environment. Contributors examine Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy, its close conceptual relationship to classical Indian philosophy and its relevance. It sheds light on how his philosophy deals with the twenty-first century's fundamental problems and offers possible solutions. The book brings out the modern debate in Western philosophy involving thinkers like Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze, and their predecessors, such as Martin Heidegger and Friedrich Nietzsche. This book is an exercise in comparative Philosophy,one that unpacks the mind of Sri Aurobindo in the context of Indian, European and Anglo-American philosophical discourse. It is of great relevance for a new generationof students, scholars of Indian philosophy, politics, religious studies and those interested in knowing the thought and practice of the twentieth-century Indian, thinker and yogi, Sri Aurobindo.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Philosophy, SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

    Bindu Puri

About the editor

Bindu Puri is a professor of contemporary Indian Philosophy at the Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her main interests are in the areas of contemporary Indian philosophy and moral and political philosophy. Puri has over 50 papers in edited anthologies and philosophical and interdisciplinary journals; including Sophia, Philosophia and the Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. She has authored three monographs; Gandhi and the Moral Life (2004) The Tagore-Gandhi Debate: On Matters of Truth and Untruth (Sophia: Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, Vol. 9, Springer 2015);and The Ambedkar-Gandhi Debate: On Identity, Community and Justice (Singapore:Springer Nature, 2022). She has seven edited volumes, the most recent being Rethinking Religious Pluralism: Moving Beyond Liberal Tolerance (Singapore: Springer Nature, 2020). She has presented over 160 papers and lectures at national and international forums. Professor Puri delivered the prestigious annual ‘M K Gandhi lecture on Peace and the Humanities’ 2017 for the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Council of Ottawa, Canada as well as the Johnson and Hastings lectures at the University of Mount Allison Canada for the same year.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reading Sri Aurobindo

  • Book Subtitle: Metaphysics, Ethics and Spirituality

  • Editors: Bindu Puri

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3136-9

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3135-2Published: 31 August 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3138-3Published: 01 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3136-9Published: 30 August 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 297

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophical Traditions, Political Philosophy

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