Book Description
About the Book :
The essays in this volume are contributed by Nikunja Vihari Banerjee’s younger contemporaries. Each essay takes up a theme which has been dealt with by the philosopher himself in his many writings. There still remain many issues which have been undiscussed. This selection, however, shows him as a thinker very much concerned with matters like perception, the nature of the self, the destiny of man, and the presuppositions of living in a world at peace. The separate studies point up his command of bath western and Indian philosophies, and the way he found grist for his own philosophical mill in each. Professor Banerjee’s philosophizing was a means of self-expression, a creative activity. But he was nonetheless deeply concerned with the fate of modern civilization, and more specifically, with the role which Indian philosophers could play in modern secular democracy.
The essays seek to situate his work in an on-going dialogue in which his viewpoints are always fresh and challenging. They are both an act of homage and an invitation to further discussion.
About the Book :
The essays in this volume are contributed by Nikunja Vihari Banerjee’s younger contemporaries. Each essay takes up a theme which has been dealt with by the philosopher himself in his many writings. There still remain many issues which have been undiscussed. This selection, however, shows him as a thinker very much concerned with matters like perception, the nature of the self, the destiny of man, and the presuppositions of living in a world at peace. The separate studies point up his command of bath western and Indian philosophies, and the way he found grist for his own philosophical mill in each. Professor Banerjee’s philosophizing was a means of self-expression, a creative activity. But he was nonetheless deeply concerned with the fate of modern civilization, and more specifically, with the role which Indian philosophers could play in modern secular democracy.
The essays seek to situate his work in an on-going dialogue in which his viewpoints are always fresh and challenging. They are both an act of homage and an invitation to further discussion.
CONTENTS
Biographical Notes vii
Editor’s Preface xi
1. Images of India : Problems and Perceptions
BIMAL KRISHNA MATILAL
2. The Human Situtation
PRADIP KUMAR SENGUPTA 16
3. The Concept of Philosophy
A.G. JAVADEKAR 35
4. N.V. Banerjee’s Critique of Advaita Vedanta
J.N. MOHANTY 47
5. Professor Banerjee on Sense-perception
N.S. DRIVID 55
6. Some Aspects of Nikunja Vihari Banerjee’s Theory of the Self
HIRANMOY BANERJEE 66
7. Professor Banerjee on Kant
ABANI CHOSH 73
8. The Primitiveness of the ‘I’ as Speaker
KALYAN KUMAR BAGCHI 77
9. Kant’s ‘Refutation of Idealism’
MRINAL MIRI 83
10. Intersubjectivity and Essentiality
MARGARET CHATTERJEE 89
11. Art and Bondage
PABITARKUMAR ROY 99
12. N.V. Banerjee Looks at Education
AMIYA KUMAR MAZUMDAR 109
13. Reflections on Justice within the Framework of N.V. Banerjee’s Thought
MARGARET CHATTERJEE 120
14. N.V. Banerjee on the Reconstruction of Humanism
SANGHASENA SINGH 127
15. N.V. Banerjee on Buddha and Marx
DEBIPRASAD CHATTOPADHYAYA 140
16. Dharmasastra and the Philosophy of Law
CHHATRAPATI SINGH 168
17. The Peace-making Utopia: An Essay in Under-standing Part III of Banerjee’s Book Towards Perpetual Peace
S.K. SAXENA 176
18. Knowledge, Reason and Human Autonomy
DAYA KRISHNA 190
Works by N.V. Vanerjee 213
Contributors 215
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