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.
Contents
Editorial
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
Contributors
Nishant Alphonse Irudayadason (nishant@jdv.edu.in) is a teaching
faculty member of Philosophy at Jnana-Deepa Vidyapeeth: Pontifical Institute of Philosophy
and Religion (JDV), Pune, India. After having completed his doctoral studies on Derrida
and Ethics at Universite Paris-Est and in Insitut Catholique de Paris, France, he has been
actively pursuing academic life. He has presented research papers in many National and
International Conferences. He has authored two books, edited one book, and penned more
than 30 articles in National and International Journals as well as in edited books. He is
currently the Chairperson of the doctoral programme in the Faculty of Philosophy at JDV.
He is a regular contributor to contemporary political analysis in "Light of
Truth", a bimonthly published from Kochi, Kerala.
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