TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mukhopadhyay,Anway
AU  - Mallick,Saptarshi
AU  - Dattaray,Debashree
TI  - Finding philosophers in global fiction : : redefining the philosopher in multi-cultural contexts / 
SN  - 9789356401945
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Bloomsbury India, 
KW  - Philosophers in literature
KW  - Fiction--History and criticism
N2  - "The academic discipline of philosophy may tell us, too rigidly, what a philosopher is or should be; but fictional narration often upholds the core conundrums of humankind in which philosophy germinates. This book explores whether a study of 'philosophers' on a broad cross-cultural spectrum can decouple philosophy from its academic aspect and lend it a more inclusive domain. Taken together, these essays insist on the need to 'de-elitize' and democratize the concept of a 'philosopher' by reflecting on the possibility of seeing a philosopher as one who sees things clearly, from any vantage point"--
ER  -