On the Death of the Pilgrim: The Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta

by Thomas B. Ellis

Book Overview

This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his engagement with the oeuvres of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It shows how Mehta's sense of cross-cultural philosophy and religious thought were affected by these engagements, and maps the two key contributions Mehta made to the sum of human ideas. First, Mehta outlined what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400798113
• ISBN13: 9789400798113
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"