Ambedkar's Political Philosophy

A Grammar of Public Life from the Social Margins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Valerian Rodrigues, Jawaharlal Nehru University) Rodrigues, Valerian (Former Professor, Former Professor, Centre for Political Studies

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Ambedkar's Political Philosophy is a critical exploration of the political theory of B R Ambedkar, the Indian thinker and leader who championed the cause of the socially oppressed. Rodrigues examines the key concepts that Ambedkar used to envision a new framework of public life that would overcome the problems of marginality, degradation, and domination. This framework is based upon an idea of the human endowed with the attributes of reasoning, moral capacity, self-respect, and a unique dignity that collectively entitles human beings to a distinct consideration as moral equals despite other differences. Ambedkar deployed the idea of the human not merely to contend against the social institutions of caste, untouchability, and other forms of marginalities but also to interrogate texts, traditions, and modes of social dominance. In a democracy, the representational, constitutional, and institutional architecture of state power is geared to sustain and reinforce itself. Such an architecture, however, may prove feeble unless shored up by the moral foundations of societies and backed by religious sanction. In Ambedkar's view, only Buddhism, as a religion, fits the bill. In this book, the author engages with Ambedkar's primary works in both English and Marathi and the debates around them, and situates his ideas in the South Asian context, making it a comprehensive and insightful commentary on his political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary society.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-09-02
Mått140 x 216 x 24 mm
Vikt10 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor432
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198925392

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Sociologi inom Samhalle och politik
Buddhism inom Filosofi och religion
Hinduism inom Filosofi och religion
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhalle och politik
Kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhalle och politik

Valerian Rodrigues is currently a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow, Nehru Memorial Trust, New Delhi, and former Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has taught at Mangalore University, Karnataka (1982-2003) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (2003-2015). Rodrigues has been National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) (2015-17) and Ambedkar Chair, Ambedkar University, Delhi (2017-2018). He has also been Visiting Scholar and Professor at Erfurt University (2012), Wuerzburg University (2011, 2015), and Simon Fraser University (2019), and Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford University (1989-1991), Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1999-2001), and Max Weber College, Erfurt (2012).

In the midst of the plethora of literature available on Ambedkar, the volume offers a distinct insight into Ambedkar's oeuvre which, as the author meticulously argues, represents Ambedkar's emancipatory endeavours to address multilayered contradictions and resolve them by producing a higher unity of normative concepts. The author gives a comprehensive, coherent, and hence, convincing account of such unity. The volume lucidly but rigorously establishes the constitutive relationship between the political principles of Ambedkar's philosophy and its conceptual structure.