समानान्तर दर्शन

Volume I · 72 source-bilingual chapters

Parallel Philosophy — Volume I

A Re-reading of Indian, Western, Socio-Political, Religious, and Modern Philosophy through Mithila’s Parallel Tradition

A comparative philosophical programme that places Mithila’s parallel intellectual tradition in conversation with Indian and Western philosophy, social thought, religious inquiry, and modernity.

72 स्रोत-द्विभाषी अध्यायक सूची सत्यापित अछि। जोड़ीदार पाठ-सामग्री अभिलेखागार-जाँच पार भेलापर मात्र स्थायी अध्याय-लिंक सक्रिय होएत।

• अध्याय 1What Is Philosophy?
• अध्याय 2Questions, Doubt, and Pramāṇa
• अध्याय 3Truth and Perspective
• अध्याय 4The Limits of Knowledge
• अध्याय 5The Method of Parallel Philosophy
• अध्याय 6Vedic Thought and Upanishadic Questions
• अध्याय 7Sāṃkhya
• अध्याय 8Yoga
• अध्याय 9Nyāya
• अध्याय 10Vaiśeṣika
• अध्याय 11Pūrvamīmāṃsā
• अध्याय 12Vedānta
• अध्याय 13Buddhist Philosophy
• अध्याय 14Jain Philosophy
• अध्याय 15Lokāyata and Materialist Questions
• अध्याय 16Language, Word, and Meaning
• अध्याय 17Videha: A Geography of Questioning
• अध्याय 18Yājñavalkya, Gārgī, and Maitreyī
• अध्याय 19Nyāya–Vaiśeṣika and Mithila’s Logical Tradition
• अध्याय 20Udayanācārya
• अध्याय 21Vācaspati Miśra
• अध्याय 22Gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya
• अध्याय 23Navya-Nyāya: The Subtle Discipline of Language
• अध्याय 24Folk Tradition, Śāstra, and Parallel Mithila
• अध्याय 25Greek Questions
• अध्याय 26Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
• अध्याय 27Medieval Philosophy
• अध्याय 28Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz
• अध्याय 29Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
• अध्याय 30Kant
• अध्याय 31Hegel and Dialectic
• अध्याय 32Marx
• अध्याय 33Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
• अध्याय 34Phenomenology and Existentialism
• अध्याय 35Analytic Philosophy
• अध्याय 36Pragmatism
• अध्याय 37Philosophy of Science
• अध्याय 38The Individual and Society
• अध्याय 39The Justification of the State
• अध्याय 40Freedom
• अध्याय 41Equality
• अध्याय 42Justice
• अध्याय 43Caste and Social Hierarchy
• अध्याय 44Class and Economic Power
• अध्याय 45Women, Gender, and Power
• अध्याय 46Language, Region, and Identity
• अध्याय 47Democracy
• अध्याय 48Gandhi
• अध्याय 49Ambedkar
• अध्याय 50What Is Religion?
• अध्याय 51The Question of God
• अध्याय 52Faith and Reason
• अध्याय 53The Problem of Suffering and Evil
• अध्याय 54Karma, Rebirth, and Mokṣa
• अध्याय 55Religious Plurality
• अध्याय 56Religion and the State
• अध्याय 57Folk Religion and Institutional Religion
• अध्याय 58Modernity
• अध्याय 59Science and the Human Being
• अध्याय 60Language and Power
• अध्याय 61History and Memory
• अध्याय 62Knowledge and the Digital World
• अध्याय 63Artificial Intelligence and Human Responsibility
• अध्याय 64The Environment and Future Generations
• अध्याय 65Multi-Pramāṇa Rationalism
• अध्याय 66Coexistential Realism
• अध्याय 67Dignity-Based Ethics
• अध्याय 68Polycentric Democracy
• अध्याय 69The Rational Plurality of Religion
• अध्याय 70A Parallel View of History
• अध्याय 71The Aphorisms of Parallel Philosophy
• अध्याय 72Epilogue

Volume II · 100 source-bilingual chapters

Parallel Philosophy — Volume II

Continuation of the parallel philosophical programme through modern, postcolonial and contemporary debates

A source-bilingual Maithili–English continuation of the Parallel Philosophy project, extending the archive through critical theory, philosophy of mind, science, technology, AI and reconstructive parallel philosophy.

100 स्रोत-द्विभाषी अध्यायक सूची सत्यापित अछि। जोड़ीदार पाठ-सामग्री अभिलेखागार-जाँच पार भेलापर मात्र स्थायी अध्याय-लिंक सक्रिय होएत।

• अध्याय 1The Second Turn in Philosophy: From Consciousness to Language
• अध्याय 2Why Philosophy Changed in the Twentieth Century
• अध्याय 3The Division between Analytic and Continental Philosophy
• अध्याय 4Where Does Indian Philosophy Sit on This Map?
• अध्याय 5Mithila’s Parallel Point of Entry
• अध्याय 6The Risks of Comparative Philosophy
• अध्याय 7Frege: Logic, Meaning and Reference
• अध्याय 8Russell: Description, Logical Form and the World
• अध्याय 9Moore and Common Sense
• अध्याय 10Early Wittgenstein: Language, Fact, Picture and the Limits of Expression
• अध्याय 11Logical Positivism: Verification, Science and the Limits of Metaphysics
• अध्याय 12Carnap and the Question of Metaphysics
• अध्याय 13Quine: The Crisis of the Analytic–Synthetic Distinction
• अध्याय 14Analytic Philosophy and Navya-Nyāya
• अध्याय 15Later Wittgenstein: Meaning in Use
• अध्याय 16Austin: Saying Is Also Doing
• अध्याय 17Searle and Speech Acts
• अध्याय 18Can Language Be Private?
• अध्याय 19The Meaning of a Word: Object, Use or Relation?
• अध्याय 20Indian Theories of Verbal Meaning
• अध्याय 21Mithila’s Tradition of Linguistic Analysis
• अध्याय 22What Is Structure?
• अध्याय 23Saussure: Signifier and Signified
• अध्याय 24Lévi-Strauss: Myth and Structure
• अध्याय 25Structure and the Individual
• अध्याय 26Indian Linguistic Traditions and Structure
• अध्याय 27The Limits of Structuralism
• अध्याय 28From Structuralism to Post-Structuralism
• अध्याय 29Derrida: A Critique of the Metaphysics of Presence
• अध्याय 30Différance: Deferral and Difference in Meaning
• अध्याय 31Writing, Speech and the Question of the Centre
• अध्याय 32What Deconstruction Is and Is Not
• अध्याय 33Indian Philosophy and Deconstruction
• अध्याय 34Navya-Nyāya as a Counterpoint to Deconstruction
• अध्याय 35A Parallel Uttarapakṣa
• अध्याय 36Can Knowledge and Power Be Separated?
• अध्याय 37Foucault’s Archaeology
• अध्याय 38Genealogy: Another Way of Writing History
• अध्याय 39Discipline, Surveillance and Normalisation
• अध्याय 40Body, Institution and Knowledge
• अध्याय 41Foucault and the Parallel View of History
• अध्याय 42What Is Postmodernism?
• अध्याय 43Lyotard and Incredulity toward Metanarratives
• अध्याय 44Baudrillard: Simulacra, Media and Hyperreality
• अध्याय 45Has Truth Ended?
• अध्याय 46Science, History and Postmodern Critique
• अध्याय 47Parallel Philosophy’s Reply
• अध्याय 48Hermeneutics: Why Is Understanding Itself a Problem?
• अध्याय 49Gadamer: Tradition and Pre-understanding
• अध्याय 50Ricoeur: Text, Symbol and Interpretation
• अध्याय 51Authorial Intention and the Reader’s Meaning
• अध्याय 52The Indian Commentary Tradition
• अध्याय 53Mithila’s Śāstrārtha as a Hermeneutic Practice?
• अध्याय 54The Frankfurt School
• अध्याय 55Horkheimer and Adorno: The Self-Critique of Modern Reason
• अध्याय 56Marcuse: Consumer Society and One-Dimensional Man
• अध्याय 57Habermas: Communicative Reason
• अध्याय 58The Public Sphere and Democracy
• अध्याय 59Śāstrārtha, Debate and Communicative Reason
• अध्याय 60The Many Voices of Feminist Philosophy
• अध्याय 61Simone de Beauvoir: Woman Is Made
• अध्याय 62Body, Experience and Power
• अध्याय 63Judith Butler: Gender, Performativity and Identity
• अध्याय 64Intersectionality: Caste, Class, Gender, Religion and Region
• अध्याय 65Questions for Indian Feminist Philosophy
• अध्याय 66Mithila’s Parallel Feminist Perspective
• अध्याय 67What Does Colonial Knowledge Do?
• अध्याय 68Edward Said: Orientalism
• अध्याय 69Gayatri Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?
• अध्याय 70Homi Bhabha: Hybridity and the Colonial Interstice
• अध्याय 71Subaltern Studies and the Margins of History
• अध्याय 72From Postcolonial to Decolonial Thought
• अध्याय 73The Colonial Classification of Indian Philosophy
• अध्याय 74Mithila between Empire, Nation and Region
• अध्याय 75New Questions in the Philosophy of Mind
• अध्याय 76The Mind–Body Problem
• अध्याय 77Behaviourism, Identity Theory and Functionalism
• अध्याय 78The Hard Problem of Consciousness
• अध्याय 79Intentionality and the Self
• अध्याय 80Indian Debates on Self, No-Self and Mind
• अध्याय 81A Three-Way Dialogue: Nyāya, Buddhism and Modern Philosophy of Mind
• अध्याय 82New Debates in Scientific Realism
• अध्याय 83Natural Science and Social Science
• अध्याय 84Technology Is More Than a Tool
• अध्याय 85Truth in the Digital World
• अध्याय 86Algorithms, Classification and Power
• अध्याय 87Artificial Intelligence: What Is Intelligence?
• अध्याय 88Machine Consciousness: An Open Question
• अध्याय 89Evidence and Responsibility in the Age of AI
• अध्याय 90A Second Form of Multi-Source Rationalism
• अध्याय 91Coexistential Realism after the Linguistic Turn
• अध्याय 92Dignity-Based Ethics and New Identities
• अध्याय 93Polycentric Democracy and Network Power
• अध्याय 94Rational Religious Pluralism in a Post-Secular Society
• अध्याय 95The Parallel View of History: Genealogy, Archive and Evidence
• अध्याय 96Self-Critique: How Can Parallel Philosophy Accept Its Own Deconstruction?
• अध्याय 97Structure Exists, but Structure Is Not Destiny
• अध्याय 98Language Is a Limit, but Not a Prison
• अध्याय 99Power Influences Knowledge, but Does Not Make Truth Arbitrary
• अध्याय 100Parallel Philosophy: Reconstruction after Deconstruction

Advaita Vedānta · Commentary · 215 pages · 64,452 words · ISBN 978-93-5943-682-1

Bhāmatī

Vācaspati Miśra’s commentary on Śaṅkara’s Brahmasūtra Bhāṣya · Sanskrit-to-Maithili translation by Gajendra Thakur

A Maithili translation and contextual study of the Bhāmatī tradition, addressing superimposition, theories of error, the self-luminosity of consciousness, and the opening Brahmasūtras.

स्रोत-सूची सत्यापनाधीन अछि — कोनो बनावटी अध्याय प्रकाशित नहि कएल जाइत अछि।

Nyāya · Self and metaphysics · 259 pages · 85,568 words · ISBN 978-93-5943-857-3

Ātmatattvaviveka

Original Sanskrit by Udayanācārya · Sanskrit-to-Maithili translation by Gajendra Thakur

A complete Maithili translation of Udayana’s inquiry into the self, accompanied by an enlarged critical introduction on poetics, translation theory, philosophical debate, and editorial architecture.

स्रोत-सूची सत्यापनाधीन अछि — कोनो बनावटी अध्याय प्रकाशित नहि कएल जाइत अछि।

Nyāya · Natural theology · 464 pages · 141,650 words · ISBN 978-93-344-6450-4

Nyāyakusumāñjali

Original Sanskrit by Udayanācārya · Sanskrit-to-Maithili translation by Gajendra Thakur

A complete Maithili translation of Udayana’s five-bouquet argument, supported by critical study of Navya-Nyāya terminology, poetics, hermeneutics, translation, and research apparatus.

स्रोत-सूची सत्यापनाधीन अछि — कोनो बनावटी अध्याय प्रकाशित नहि कएल जाइत अछि।

Navya-Nyāya · Epistemology · 1,552 pages · 336,691 words · ISBN 978-93-6123-729-4

Tattvacintāmaṇi

Original Sanskrit by Gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya · Sanskrit-to-Maithili translation by Gajendra Thakur

A large-format Maithili translation of Gaṅgeśa’s foundational Navya-Nyāya work, organized through the means of knowledge and furnished with substantial philosophical introductions.

स्रोत-सूची सत्यापनाधीन अछि — कोनो बनावटी अध्याय प्रकाशित नहि कएल जाइत अछि।