TY - BOOK ID - 14307150 TI - On the death of the pilgrim : the postcolonial hermeneutics of Jarava Lal Mehta PY - 2013 SN - 940075230X 9400798113 9400752318 1283865661 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. KW - Hermeneutics. KW - Phenomenology. KW - Philosophy, Indic. KW - Hermeneutics KW - Philosophy, Indic KW - Philosophy, Comparative KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Religion - General KW - Philosophy KW - Speculative Philosophy KW - Mehta, Jarava Lal, KW - Interpretation, Methodology of KW - Indic philosophy KW - Philosophy, East Indian KW - Jarava Lal Mehta, KW - Mehta, J. L. KW - Mehatā, Jaṛavalāla, KW - Jaṛavalāla Mehatā, KW - Philosophy. KW - Culture KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Philosophy of Religion. KW - Regional and Cultural Studies. KW - Migration. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Immigration KW - International migration KW - Migration, International KW - Population geography KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Colonization KW - Cultural studies KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities KW - Criticism KW - Hindu philosophy KW - Culture-Study and teaching. KW - Religion—Philosophy. KW - Culture—Study and teaching. KW - Ethnology. KW - Culture. KW - Regional Cultural Studies. KW - Human Migration. KW - Cultural sociology KW - Sociology of culture KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Cultural anthropology KW - Ethnography KW - Races of man KW - Social anthropology KW - Anthropology KW - Human beings KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14307150 AB - This searching examination of the life and philosophy of the twentieth-century Indian intellectual Jarava Lal Mehta details, among other things, his engagement with the oeuvres of Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Jacques Derrida. It shows how Mehta’s sense of cross-cultural philosophy and religious thought were affected by these engagements, and maps the two key contributions Mehta made to the sum of human ideas. First, Mehta outlined what the author dubs a ‘postcolonial hermeneutics’ that uses the ‘ethnotrope’ of the pilgrim to challenge the philosophical hermeneutic emphasis on supplementation and augmentation. For Mehta, the hermeneutic encounter ruptures, rather than supplements, the self. Secondly, Mehta extended this concept of hermeneutics to interrogate the Hindu tradition, arriving at the concept of the ‘negative messianic’. In contrast to Derrida's emphasis on the 'one to come', Mehta shows how the Hindu bhakti model represents the very opposite, that is, the 'withdrawn other,' identifying thereby the ethical pitfalls of deconstructivism's emphasis on the messianic tradition. This is the only full-length study in English of this high-profile Hindu philosopher. ER -