Minds Without Fear by Nalini Bhushan
Minds Without Fear is an intellectual and cultural history of India during the period of British occupation. It demonstrates that this was a period of renaissance in India in which philosophy--both in the public sphere and in the Indian universities--played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively Indian modernity. This is also a history of Indian philosophy. It demonstrates how the development of a secular philosophical voice facilitated the construction of modern Indian society and the consolidation of the nationalist movement. Authors Nalini Bhushan and Jay Garfield explore the complex role of the English language in philosophical and nationalist discourse, demonstrating both the anxieties that surrounded English, and the processes that normalized it as an Indian vernacular and academic language. Garfield and Bhushan attend to both Hindu and Muslim philosophers, to public and academic intellectuals, to artists and art critics, and to national identity and nation-building. Also explored is the complex interactions between Indian and European thought during this period, including the role of missionary teachers and the influence of foreign universities in the evolution of Indian philosophy. This pattern of interaction, although often disparaged as "inauthentic" is continuous with the cosmopolitanism that has always characterized the intellectual life of India, and that the philosophy articulated during this period is a worthy continuation of the Indian philosophical tradition.
Bhushan and Garfield's book is an extremely valuable record of a community of philosophers that has fallen sadly into obscurity, and of the philosophical contributions of figures that are more often discussed in non-philosophical contexts--figures such as Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore, and Vivekenanda* Evan Clarke, Philosophy in Review *
Bhushan: Professor of Philosophy, Smith CollegeGarfield: Silbert Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Smith College. Until 2016 he is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at Yale-NUS College, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Singapore and recurrent visiting professor of philosophy at Yale University
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190457594 |
| ISBN 10 | 0190457597 |
| Title | Minds Without Fear |
| Author | Nalini Bhushan |
| Series | Oxford History Of Philosophy Ser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2017-07-27 |
| Number of pages | 344 |
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