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Web Resource Theme: Networking on Contemporary Indian Philosophy Type: Research Weblog Maintainer: Elise Coquereau and Elisa Freschi URL: https://networkingcontemporaryindianphilosophy.wordpress.com __________________________________________________ Following the conference ‘The Challenge of Postcolonial Philosophy in India: Too Alien for Contemporary Philosophers, too Modern for Sanskritists’ (28-29.09.2017, Vienna, Austria, Conference website: http://www.ikga.oeaw.ac.at/Events/contindphil), the idea of forming a sustained research group on colonial and post-colonial Indian philosophies arose. By colonial and post-colonial Indian philosophies, we mean Indian philosophies originating during the colonial or post-independence period in their linguistic diversity: vernacular, Sanskrit and English-speaking philosophy in India or authors from abroad working on Indian philosophies of this time, in particular the relations between these philosophies and their evolution. Rather than a history of philosophies, we consider the concepts in contexts: the colonial and postcolonial Indian philosophies in their reinterpretation of classical Indian philosophies and of European and Anglo-American concepts, and the hybridity of their philosophies that occurred in thinking between different traditions, thereby contributing to the world philosophical conversation. We also consider colonial and postcolonial Indian philosophies as a field with its own thematics and problems, such as the problems of authenticity of Indian philosophies today and the political dimension of a postcolonial philosophy, the idea of cosmopolitanism, the relation between philology and philosophy (Indology and philosophy) for defining Indian philosophy. To remedy to the lack of studies on contemporary philosophy of India, to counterbalance the asymmetry of the comparative mode between classical India and contemporary European and Anglo-American, to promote a field of philosophy that has been forgotten in today’s academics, and to contribute to a world philosophizing, we would like to enhance further discussion, with the following activities: - announcing conferences, panels and lectures - announcing new publications in the field - brainstorming about contemporary Indian philosophical concepts Networking on Contemporary Indian Philosophy: https://networkingcontemporaryindianphilosophy.wordpress.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
