Roots, Routes and a New Awakening

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<p>This book seeks to find creative and transformative relationship among roots and routes and create a new dynamics of awakening so that we can overcome the problems of closed and xenopbhobic roots and rootless cosmopolitanism. The book draws upon multiple philosophical and spiritual traditions of the world such as Siva Tantra, Buddhist phenomenology and Peircean Semiotics and discusses the works of Ibn-Arabi, Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi and Raimon Panikkar,among others.The book is transdiscipinary building on creative thinking from philosophy, anthropology, political studies and literature. It is a unique contribution for forging a new relationship between roots and routes in our contemporary fragile and complex world.</p>

Autorenportrait

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He is the author and editor of more than two dozen books in English and Odia including <i>Knowledge and Human Liberation</i> (2013), <i>Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo</i> (editor), and <i>The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations</i>(forthcoming).

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