Book chapter
Dancing East and West: Charting Intercultural Possibilities in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations, pp.233-248
Palgrave Macmillan
2018
Abstract
This chapter enacts a dialogue between the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) and the Indian social theorist and guru Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (1922-1990). It is an attempt to test the creative possibilities generated through an intercivilisational dialogue. The dialogue seeks to explore the congruences and incompatibilities that such an encounter can reveal. This co-creative process gives us new insights into the world and leads to the emergence of new categories and concepts to help us negotiate it. Both Deleuze and Sarkar take their philosophical traditions and rethink them in the light of new global demands, acting as creative traditionalists who speak from the past to the future through the medium of Western and Indic philosophy respectively. At the heart of this work lies the recognition that "philosophy is the art of forming, inventing, and fabricating concepts" (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (B. Massumi, Trans.). Continuum, 1994, p. 2).
Details
- Title
- Dancing East and West: Charting Intercultural Possibilities in the Thought of Gilles Deleuze and Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
- Authors
- Marcus P Bussey (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
- Contributors
- Ananta Kumar Giri (Editor)
- Publication details
- Social Theory and Asian Dialogues: Cultivating Planetary Conversations, pp.233-248
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Date published
- 2018
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-10-7095-2_11
- ISBN
- 9789811070945
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Engage Research Lab; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451457702621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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