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Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society

Border Crossings, Transformations and Planetary Realizations

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Editors:
  1. Ananta Kumar Giri

    1. Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India

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  • Explores pragmatism, spirituality and society

  • Deals with the theme of pragmatism and planetary realizations

  • Is a unique trans-disciplinary and cross-cultural engagement with pragmatism, spirituality and society

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: An Introduction and an Invitation

    • Ananta Kumar Giri
    Pages 1-10

  3. Correction to: Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society

    • Ananta Kumar Giri
    Pages C1-C1

  4. Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: New Horizons of Theory and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Pragmatism and Spirituality: New Horizons of Theory and Practice and the Calling of Planetary Realizations

      • Ananta Kumar Giri
      Pages 13-39

    3. Pragmatism, Geist and the Question of Form: From a Critical Theory Perspective

      • Piet Strydom
      Pages 41-68

    4. Naturalistic Spirituality, Religious Naturalism, and Community Spirituality: A Broader Pragmatic View

      • Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley
      Pages 69-93

    5. Pragmatism and the “Changing of the Earth”: Unifying Moral Impulse, Creative Instinct, and Democratic Culture

      • Julie Mazzarella Geredien
      Pages 95-122

    6. Towards Spiritual Pragmatics: Reflections from the Graveyards of Culture

      • Marcus Bussey
      Pages 123-144

    7. Mystical Pragmatics

      • Paul Hague
      Pages 145-165

    8. Pragmatism and Spirituality in Anthropological Aesthetics

      • Janusz Barański
      Pages 167-184

  5. Pragmatism and Spirituality: Border-Crossing Adventures, Creative Experiments and New Pathways of Planetary Realizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Peirce’s Semiotic Pragmaticism and Buddhist Soteriology: Steps Towards Modelling “Thought Forms” of Signlessness

      • Alina Therese Lettner
      Pages 187-219

    3. Spiritual Pragmatism: William James, Sri Aurobindo and Global Philosophy

      • Richard Hartz
      Pages 221-246

    4. William James’s Pragmatism and Some Aspects of Roman Catholic Teaching

      • Edward Ulrich
      Pages 247-262

    5. Gandhi, Hegel and Freedom: Aufhebungen, Pragmatism and Ideal Type Models

      • Johannes (Hans) I. Bakker
      Pages 263-284

    6. Cosmopolitan Nationalism, Spirituality and Spaces in Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo

      • Payel Chattopadhyay Mukherjee
      Pages 285-304

    7. Thought of Mahatma Gandhi: A Path-Breaking Experience of Spiritual Pragmatism

      • Sanghamitra Patnaik
      Pages 305-323

    8. Pragmatism, Spirituality, and the Calling of a New Democracy: The Populist Challenge and Ambedkar’s Integration of Buddhism and Dewey

      • Kanchana Mahadevan
      Pages 325-346

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 347-356
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About this book

This book explores border crossing among pragmatism, spirituality and society. It opens up American pragmatism to dialogues with pragmatism and spiritual quest from other traditions such as India and China thus making contemporary pragmatism a part of much needed planetary conversations. It cultivates new visions and practices of spiritual pragmatism building upon the seminal works of Charles Sanders Pierce, William James, Sri Aurobindo, John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, Mahatma Gandhi, B.R. Ambedkar, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Luce Irigaray which can help us rethink and transform conventional conceptions and constructions of practice, pragmatism, language, religion, politics, society, culture and democracy and create new relationships of pragmatism, spirituality and society.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India

    Ananta Kumar Giri

About the editor

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University (Denmark), Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris (France), the University of Kentucky (USA), University of Freiburg & Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany), Jagiellonian University (Poland) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature.  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society

  • Book Subtitle: Border Crossings, Transformations and Planetary Realizations

  • Editors: Ananta Kumar Giri

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7102-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 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. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7101-5Published: 03 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7104-6Published: 04 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7102-2Published: 02 December 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 356

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Pragmatism, Modern Philosophy, Spirituality

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