Philosophy

Edward W. Said’s seminal text Orientalism disrupted how the Orient understands itself. This book focuses on his work, analyzing how the discourse of orientalism perpetrated the West’s cultural hegemony and the internal hegemony within the non-western world.

This title examines the contention that, in an era where the relevance of the literary novel is compromised, the novel remains an important means of exploring and interrogating societies and culture. It does this through readings of a selection of Don DeLillo’s later novels.

Exploring how the language of literature and its meaning have been dealt with in both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking, Shrawan focuses on the intersections between the theories of vakrokti and Russian formalism, and those between dhvani and deconstruction.

The Shakespeare authorship debate is often dismissed by scholars, yet the documented facts are meager. This book sets out the debate’s profound philosophical dimensions concerning knowledge, truth, and academic freedom—implications that transcend the question itself.

This text explains the extended meaning known as Vakyartha according to the Prabhakara school of Purva Mimamsa, the ancient Indian theory of meaning. It discusses Expectation, Merit and Juxtaposition, recognised as the causes of deriving the meanings of words and sentences.