Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma
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- Synopsis
- 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 of dharma or 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.
- Copyright:
- 2018
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 254 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781351061407
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781351061421, 9781138709201, 9780367735050
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 09/25/23
- Copyrighted By:
- Routledge
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya
- Edited by:
- Vrinda Dalmiya
- Edited by:
- Gangeya Mukherji
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