Lexington Books
Pages: 156
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-0-7391-0397-5 • Hardback • October 2002 • $102.00 • (£78.00)
Margaret Chatterjee has taught at Delhi, Calgary, and Oxford universities. She is the author of a number of books including Studies in Modern Jewish and Hindu Thought (1997).
Chapter 1 The Tattered Emblem
Chapter 2 The Tattered Emblem (Continued)
Chapter 3 Indian Resurgence and the Rhetoric of Brotherhood
Chapter 4 The Rhetoric of Spirit
Chapter 5 The Hinterland of Memory
Chapter 6 Galapagos Beasties
Chapter 7 The "Specter" of Multiculturalism
Chapter 8 The Bogey of the Unfamiliar
Chapter 9 The Horizon of Religious Amity
Chapter 10 Epilogue
Few can equal Chatterjee's astonishing breadth of scholarship and ethical depth.
— Jerome Gellman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Australian Catholic University
This wide-ranging book describes the ways in which the ideal of brotherhood has been explicated by—among others—ancient Hebrews and modern Hindus, freemasons and feminists, nuns and Nazis. . . . Probably Chatterjee's best book yet.
— Jenny Teichman, New Hall, University of Cambridge
Elegantly written, these essays are short, full of useful insights, balanced. . . . They draw on the vast reservoir of the author's knowledge of philosophy Eastern and Western , Modern and Contemporary. The reader is exposed to a brilliant array of thinkers, among them Husserl, Buber, Levinas, Sri Aurobindo, Radhakrishnan, Keshav Chunder Sen, and Mendelsohn. Each essay can stand on its own, but the thread of the search for amity gives them a supervening unity.
— Anthony J. Parel, University of Calgary