{"product_id":"finding-philosophers-in-global-fiction-redefining-the-philosopher-in-multi-cultural-contexts-9798765100912","title":"Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction: Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-Cultural Contexts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA cross-cultural study that explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the lens of literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe academic discipline of philosophy may tell us, too rigidly, what a philosopher is or should be; but fictional narration often upholds the core conundrums of humankind in which philosophy germinates. This collection of essays explores whether a study of 'philosophers' at a planetary scale, or at least on a broad cross-cultural spectrum, can decouple philosophy from its academic aspect and lend it a more inclusive domain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors to this volume play with three conceptual poles, making them interact with each other and get modified through this interaction: 'fiction', 'narrative' and 'philosopher'. How do these three terms get semantically modified and broadened in scope when we speak of the figures of philosophers in imaginative writing? How do these terms assume different connotations in different cultural contexts, interacting with the multiplicity of not just 'thought', but also the media and tools of 'thought'? Do we always think only rationally? Or do we also think with and through emotively powerful images, symbols and tropes? In the end, \u003ci\u003eFinding Philosophers in Global Fiction \u003c\/i\u003einsists on the need to 'de-elitize' and democratize the concept of a 'philosopher' by reflecting on the possibility of seeing a philosopher as one who sees things clearly, from any vantage point.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnway Mukhopadhyay\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDebashree Dattaray\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, India. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaptarshi Mallick\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, University of Graz, Austria. He is on lien from Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, India.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51199702401298,"sku":"9798765100912","price":148.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3beb6287-4a6e-42af-ad52-9e80a64dfe71.jpg?v=1744882215","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/finding-philosophers-in-global-fiction-redefining-the-philosopher-in-multi-cultural-contexts-9798765100912","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}