Oneself as Another: the Bengal Renaissance thinker in a dialogue with the West

Autor: T G Skorokhodova
Jazyk: German<br />English<br />French<br />Russian
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: RUDN Journal of Philosophy, Vol 0, Iss 1, Pp 78-86 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2313-2302
2408-8900
Popis: Personal peculiarities of Eastern subjects of dialogue with the West are described in the paper based on Paul Ricoeur’s conception of “Oneself as Another” (“Soi-même comme un autre”) On the example of the Bengal Renaissance thinkers (XIX — early XX century) from new intellectual elite are demonstrated otherness and identity of their personal positions. They are Others both for their own Indian social-cultural surroundings and for Western subjects of inter-cultural dialogue. Otherness along with Indian identity had determined the specific role and works by Bengal thinkers in dialogue with the West.
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