Ethics and Culture : Some Contemporary Indian Reflections, Vol. 2

Contents: Introduction/Indrani Sanyal. 1. Can there be a value judgement? Maitreyee Datta. 2. Spiritualism as contra-religionism: the marker of a culture/Indrani Sanyal. 3. Asian unity and relatedness in the eyes of Benoy Kumar Sarkar/Atashee Chatterjee Sinha. 4. Freedom : A humanistic approach of M.N. Roy/Aparajita Mukhopadhyay. 5. Balaram Hadi’s philosophy of sexuality/Arun Mahata. 6. Ramendrasundar Trivedi on self and others/Dipayan Pattanayak. 7. Social philosophy of  Muhammad Iqbal/Gargi Goswami. 8. Debendranath Tagore and the Upanishads/Ratna Dutta Sharma. 9. Keshub Chandra Sen and his Brahmo Samaj Movements/Samar Kumar Mondal. 10. Sister Nivedita’s value-oriented vision for the uplift of Indian Society/Rubai Saha. 11. Vidyasagar : society and value/Jhuma Chakraborty. Appendices. Index.

The present anthology is a collection of eleven articles on distinguished thinkers of contemporary India about values in general written by the members of the Value Group, Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy, Jadavpur University. The eleven thinkers whose perspectives are elaborated in this volume are Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Sri Aurobindo, Binoy Kumar Sarkar, Manabendra Nath Roy, Balaram Hadi, Ramendrasundar Trivedi, Muhammad Iqbal, Debendranath Tagore, Keshub Chandra Sen, Sister Nivedita and Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. 

In this volume all the authors, in their own ways, are interested to look into the viewpoints of some of the renowned contemporary Indian thinkers to understand their perception of values and their suggested remedies for the elimination of social evils. Each author of this volume has endeavoured to interpret a thinker of his or her choice meticulously and essays are written in plain and simple English.

These profiles should attract the attention of a wide range of audience: from general readers to those of sociology, history and philosophy.