Identity as Reasoned Choice: A South Asian Perspective on the Reach and Resources of Public and Practical Reason in Shaping Individual Identities

by Jonardon Ganeri

Book Overview

A companion volume to Jonardon Ganeri's popular textbook, Philosophy in Classical India: The Proper Work of Reason, this new book surveys in a lively and accessible style the nature of practical and public reason in India. It provides what is missing in Amartya Sen's widely admired The Argumentative Indian: detailed discussion of the thinkers--dissenters and heretics, as well as mainstream voices--whose astonishing ideas so enrich...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 162356588X
• ISBN13: 9781623565886
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"