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

• Main Author: Ellis, Thomas B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures ; 3
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Religion > Philosophy.; Emigration and immigration.; Philosophy of Religion.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Migration.

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 r...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• From Banaras to the West and and Back
• From Subcontinent to Continental
• Pilgrims and Pilgrimages
• Digging at the Roots: The Logic of the Hindu Tradition
• Heroes, Jewish Nomads, and Hindu Pilgrims: Ulysses, Abraham and Uddhava at the Cross- (cultural) – roads
• Bibliography.