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Prabhat
Rainjan Sarkar was one of the greatest modern philosophers of India
Former
President of India, Giani Zail Singh
Two new titles by Gurukula
Press open up an exciting new mindway between Eastern and Western
thinking, bringing much-needed fresh perspectives to global
discourse on critical and emerging issues.
The work of Prabhat Rainjan
Sarkar, well known in India as a challenging and progressive
thinker, is now stimulating debate and providing new frameworks for
analysis in a wide range of academic disciplines.
Many believe his contributions to the knowledge base may be
compared to that of seminal thinkers such as Foucault and Marx.
His breadth of philosophical understanding compares well to
Rudolf Steiner and Shrii Aurobindo.
Two new titles by Gurukula
Press, Transcending
Boundaries and Situating
Sarkar, are among the first books to present Sarkar's thinking
within the context of current paradigms of academic thought.
These books examine the parallels between Sarkar's thinking
and other thinkers, yet also critically examine the ways in which
Sarkar challenges and extends those paradigms. They are well
researched and referenced making them suitable introductory texts at
a tertiary level for gaining an understanding of the ideas of
Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar.
TRANSCENDING
BOUNDARIES:
Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar's Theories of
Individual and Social Transformation
Edited
by Sohail Inayatullah and Jennifer Fitzgerald
Isbn:
0 – 9585866-0-8
This collection of essays is the first book to explore
Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar's social, scientific and spiritual
contributions to the knowledge base of humanity. The authors not
only examine how Sarkar has addressed issues in diverse fields such
as political theory, health science, macrohistory, women's studies,
art history, communication theory and ethics but also how he has
redefined current disciplines. Indeed, Sarkar gives us a new
paradigm, a new map, of how we see ourselves, others, nature and the
future.
Written by leading academic experts and writers, these essays
truly transcend boundaries - they open up a new frontier where
Sarkar's own concepts of Tantra, Microvita, Neo-Humanism,
Coordinated Cooperation, Bio-Psychology and the Social Cycle can
enter relevant areas of academic discourse.
$24.50 ($Aus)
The
Indian master P. R. Sarkar, who did more than thirty years of
studies and practical concrete work with the poor population of
India, is very important for all who yearn for a liberation which
starts from economics and opens to a totality of personal and social
human existence . . .
Leonardo Boff, Brazilian
founder of Liberation Theology, author of more than fifty books.
P.
R. Sarkar, in his own way, is more than the equal of the great
historian Arnold Toynbee. Sarkar not only illuminated the growth and
inevitable decline that comes from the
"acquisitive-Capitalist" stage in societal evolution that
has now deeply infected the West, but offers wise counsel on what to
do instead.
Oliver W. Markley, Professor
of Human Sciences, University of Houston at Clear Lake
Sarkar's
theories deserve serious study and discussion . . . they provide
answers to economic and social dilemmas . . . I owe my greatest
intellectual debt to P. R. Sarkar.
Dr. Ravi Batra, economist
and best-selling author, Southern Methodist University, Texas.
Transcending
Boundaries and Situating Sarkar are impressive and inspired reading.
Prakash Lauffer, CEO,
Motherwear
Transcending
Boundaries
Table of Contents
1.
Transcending the Knowledge Base, Editors' Introduction
2.
Earth in Heaven by Dr. Sohail Inayatullah
3.
Towards Eclecticism by Professor Johan Galtung
4.
Marx, Toynbee and Sarkar by Professor Ravi Batra
5.
The Path to Coordinated Cooperation by Ananda Gaorii
Avadhutika
6.
Rekindling the Wisdom Tradition by Jennifer Fitzgerald
7.
Beyond Nationalism by Craig Runde
8.
Politics Beyond Liberalism by Krtashivananda Avadhuta
9.
Tantra and Technology by Ramana Williams
10.
Imagining a Universal Future by Roar Bjonnes
11.
The Healing Eye by Marcus Bussey
12.
Expanding the Child's Mind by Ananda Nivedita Avadhutika and
Ketana Bardwell
13.
Silence and the Communicative Community by Ramana Williams
14.
The Cycle of Creation and Microvita by Dr. Richard Gauthier
15.
Bio-Psychology by Jitendra Singh, M.D.
16.
Food for the Body, Mind and Spirit of All Beings by Andrew
Nicholson, M.D.
17.
Farming the Future by Steven Diver
About the Editors:
Dr.
Sohail Inayatullah, a political
scientist, holds a number of academic positions.
He is Visiting Professorial Research Fellow at Tamkang
University, Taiwan, Professor, International Management Centres and
Visiting Academic, the Communication Centre, Queensland University
of Technology. In 1999, he was Tamkang Chair, Tamkang University,
Taiwan; and, Unesco Chair in International Politics at the
University of Trier, Germany. Inayatullah
is fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation and the World
Academy of Art and Science. Inayatullah is co-editor of The
Journal of Futures Studies, co-editor of PROUT
Review, and associate editor of
New Renaissance. Inayatullah is on the editorial boards of Futures
and Foresight.
In addition to 200 journal
articles, book chapters and magazine pieces, Inayatullah has written
a number of books. His authored and co-edited books for 1999/2000
include: The University in
Transformation: Global
Perspectives
on the Futures of the University; The Knowledge Base of Futures
Studies - Volume 4; Islam, Postmodernism and Other Futures;
and, Transforming
Communication: Technology, Sustainability and Future Generations.
He is currently working on Theorizing
Futures, and Understanding
Sarkar, a book based on his 1990 doctoral dissertation. Email:
sinayatullah@hotmail.com and s.inayatullah@qut.edu.au. web: http://www.worldfutures.org;
http://www.ru.org; http://www.others.com; http://www.transcend.org
Jennifer
Fitzgerald is an attorney and
researcher and the mother of two boys. She graduated with Honours in
Law from the University of Queensland in 1982 and also holds a
degree in Economics and Political Science from the Australian
National University. Her research work has focussed on human rights
and social justice issues from a legal as well as a sociological
perspective, covering issues such as domestic violence, prisoners'
rights and the rights of people with disability. Fitzgerald now
works in the bio-ethics field, writing and speaking on the ethical
dilemmas associated with new medical technologies and has published
numerous articles in legal, disability and sociological journals.
She is the author of the book Include
Me In: Disability,
Rights and the Law in Queensland and she is currently editing a
collection of essays by tantric women, Fire
in our Eyes, Flowers in our Hearts: Tantric Women Tell Their Stories.
She first began reading
Sarkar's theories of individual and social change in 1979 and has
used them as a broad framework for understanding human rights and
social justice issues and for developing proposals for law reform
and policy development. She visited Sarkar in India on numerous
occasions during his lifetime to deepen her understanding of his
work.
SITUATING
SARKAR:
Tantra,
Macrohistory and Alternative Futures
by
Sohail
Inayatullah
isbn:
0 - 9585866 – 1- 6
In
this unique analysis, Sohail Inayatullah examines the narratives of
Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar from historical, comparative and
poststructural modes of analysis. Inayatullah's inquiries into
Sarkar's works, compare him to such diverse thinkers as Ssu-Ma Chien,
Ibn Khaldun, Montesquieu, Aurobindo,
Gandhi, and Foucault.
Sarkar's social movements are contrasted to ecological,
capitalist, and local models of society and economy. Inayatullah
also applies Sarkar's theories to various problems in modern
social theory: the problem
of representation and governance; the issue of agency versus
structure; the politics of language and the real; the tension
between the local and the global; and the science/culture debate.
As with Sarkar's works themselves, Inayatullah takes a
balanced approach, investigating economic, social and transcendental
discourses along with a critical interpretation of Sarkar's vision
of the future.
Comments on
Situating Sarkar
Simply
superb. Johan Galtung, Professor of
Peace Studies
Situating
Sarkar is great! I
learned a lot from it, and also found it inspiring.
Emeritus Professor Allen Tough, University of Toronto, OISE
An
Asian intellectual writing effectively about ideas that include the
potential replacement for marxism and capitalism!
Clement Bezold, Institute for Alternative Futures.
SITUATING
SARKAR
Table of Contents:
1.
Sarkar's Theory of Social Change: Structure and Transcendence
2.
Locating Sarkar: Economy, Epistemology, and Social Theory
3.
Sarkar's Vision of the Future: Forecasts and Alternative
Futures
4.
Beyond Development and Towards Prama
5.
Ibn Khaldun and P. R. Sarkar: Macro-history and the
Transcendent
6.
Governance, Representation and Types of Power: From
Montesquieu to P. R. Sarkar
7.
Locating Sarkar in Indian Political Philosophy
8.
Cycles of Power: Technology, Culture and is the Real Still
Real
9.
Rethinking Science and Culture: P. R. Sarkar's Reconstruction
of Science and Society
10.
Beyond the Postmodern: Any Futures Possible?
11.
Further and Closer than Ever Before: Religion, Peace and the
Future
12.
Reading Sarkar's Social Movements: A Socio-Historical Account
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