Musings and Meanings : Hermeneutical Ripples
Contents: 1. Navigating Cross-Hermeneutical Currents : A Subaltern Perspective/Felix Wilfred. 2. Celebrating Difference : Doing Philosophy Otherwise/Nishant Alphonse Irudayadason. 3. Trifocal Hermeneutics : Mimesis, Krisis, Poiesis/Keith D'Souza. 4. Religion, Culture and Communication/George Karuvelil. 5. Towards a Creative Hermeneutics of Praxis/Kuruvilla Pandikattu. 6. Hermeneutical Influences in U.S. Philosophy of Religion and Theology/Brendan Sweetman. 7. The Hermeneutics of Ethical Research : A Case Study of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities/Janis Ozolins. 8. The Analogical Hermeneutics of Latin America : Tracing its Relevance to Philosophy and Theology/Corina Yoris-Villasana. 9. Hermeneutics of the Genius of the Absurd : Interpreting the Dao/Alfredo P. Co. 10. Contribution and Challenge of Mimamsa to the Dream of a Global Hermeneutics/Francis X. Clooney. 11. The Dialectic of Non-dual Intuition of the Absolute : A Study of Sunyata of Nagarjuna in Mulamadhyamikakarika/Stephen Chundamthadam. 12. The Liberative Hermeneutics of Dr. Ambedkar/Noel Sheth. 13. Quest for Identity and Liberation : A Dalit Hermeneutical Reading/Selvaraj Arulnathan. 14. The Portrait of Women : A Feminist Hermeneutics of Sangam Literature/I. Josephine Jeyashanthi.
This edited work titled "Musings and Meanings : Hermeneutical Ripples..." is the outcome of the international conference hosted in honor of two eminent veteran scholars Richard De Smet and Jean de Marneffe of the Faculty of Philosophy at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth, Pune in January 2014 to dwell extensively on the art of understanding from both the Eastern and the Western perspectives. All the scholarly essays in this edited work critically engage with contemporary theories of cross-cultural understanding and the discourse on the stranger. This work therefore is attempt to formulate a cross-cultural interpretation that incorporates the ambivalence of boundaries, the enabling dimension of essentialism and acknowledges the role that fore-meanings and fore-structures have on cross-cultural understanding. (jacket)
