Research Articles by Gajendra Thakur
522 full-text chapter article editions: 178 History articles and 344 Parallel Philosophy articles (172 Maithili + 172 English). The source books are preserved in the Videha eJournal repository. Each article carries its own canonical URL, scholarly citation metadata and source-book citation.
History — Volume I (28)
- 1. Region, rivers, names, and method
- 2. Archaeology and early food production
- 3. Late prehistoric and early iron-using horizons
- 4. Environment, mobility, and settlement
- 5. Videha in Vedic and Upanishadic textual worlds
- 6. Janaka, Sita, and the discipline of reading tradition
- 7. Vajji, the Licchavis, and Vaishali
- 8. Anga, Champa, and the Magadhan horizon
- 9. Buddhism, Jainism, and eastern Gangetic religious change
- 10. Empires, inscriptions, and pilgrim itineraries
- 11. Licchavi Nepal and the problem of continuity
- 12. Tirabhukti and the early-medieval regional order
- 13. The Karnatas and Simraongarh
- 14. Oiniwar rule, Sultanate power, and political transition
- 15. Two Vidyapatis: Maithili, Sanskrit learning, and law
- 16. Mughal-era Tirhut, Anga, and early-modern institutions
- 17. Company rule, Permanent Settlement, and Darbhanga Raj
- 18. Agrarian society, markets, caste, and labour
- 19. Rivers, calamity, transport, and the colonial state
- 20. Education, print, language, reform, and nationalism
- 21. The Nepal Tarai, Rana rule, and the border to 1951
- 22. Land reform, democracy, and changing regional power
- 23. The India-Nepal borderland, migration, and exchange
- 24. Maithili and Angika: language, literature, and recognition
- 25. Mithila painting, gender, and the cultural economy
- 26. The Kosi, floods, infrastructure, and environmental risk
- 27. Madhesh, representation, and plural citizenship in Nepal
- 28. Conclusions: connected histories without false unity
History — Volume II (150)
- 1. The Physical Foundations of Society
- 2. Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence
- 3. CHALCOLITHIC AND EARLY AGRARIAN COMMUNITIES
- 4. ARCHAEOLOGY OF FOOD AND EVERYDAY LIFE
- 5. ENVIRONMENT, MOBILITY AND SETTLEMENT
- 6. THE SECOND URBANISATION
- 7. HOUSEHOLD AND FAMILY IN EARLY HISTORIC SOCIETY
- 8. SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION BEFORE FIXED CASTE NARRATIVES
- 9. WOMEN IN EARLY MITHILA–VAJJI–ANGA
- 10. AGRICULTURE AND THE RURAL ECONOMY
- 11. CRAFTS AND TECHNOLOGY
- 12. Trade, Merchants and Markets
- 13. Vaishali as an Economic and Social Centre
- 14. Anga and Champa
- 15. Early money and monetisation
- 16. Buddhist and Jain institutional economies
- 17. Education, debate and intellectual communities
- 18. Health, medicine and the body
- 19. From Vedic ritual landscapes to regional religious cultures
- 20. Buddhism in the social history of Vajji and Videha
- 21. Jainism and the Vaishali–Videha landscape
- 22. Śaiva, Śākta and Vaiṣṇava transformations
- 23. Sacred geography
- 24. Festivals and calendrical culture
- 25. Death, ancestors and life-cycle rites
- 26. Land Grants and Changing Agrarian Society
- 27. Village, Market and Town
- 28. Labour, Service and Occupational Communities
- 29. Social Classification and Its Historical Formation
- 30. Brahmanical Institutions without Retrospective Caste Projection
- 31. The Panji Tradition
- 32. Women, Marriage and Property in Medieval Mithila
- 33. Karnata and Oiniwar-Period Social Economy
- 34. Islam, Migration and New Social Worlds
- 35. Persianate Culture and Mithila–Anga
- 36. Languages Before Modern Standardisation
- 37. Formation of Literary Maithili
- 38. The Two Vidyāpatis and Two Historical Contexts
- 39. Tirhuta/Mithilakshar and Scribal Culture
- 40. Oral Culture
- 41. Angika and the Eastern Linguistic-Cultural Zone
- 42. Bajjika and Western Mithila
- 43. Sanskrit Learning and Scholastic Institutions
- 44. Architecture and Settlement
- 45. Dress, Textiles and Ornament
- 46. Food History of Mithila, Vajji and Anga
- 47. Mithila Painting Before and Beyond the Modern Art Market
- 48. Mithila Painting and the Twentieth-Century Cultural Economy
- 49. Music, Song and Performance
- 50. Theatre and Dramatic Cultures
- 51. Fairs, Markets and Public Culture
- 52. Mughal-Period Land, Revenue and Agrarian Society
- 53. Trade between Bengal, Bihar, Nepal and the Gangetic World
- 54. East India Company Expansion and the Remaking of Agrarian Relations
- 55. Permanent Settlement and Landed Society
- 56. Indigo and Commercial Agriculture
- 57. Opium and Other Commodity Networks
- 58. Famines, Scarcity and Food Security
- 59. Colonial Surveys and the Invention of Social Categories
- 60. Education under Colonialism
- 61. Print Culture
- 62. Railways, Roads and Changing Markets
- 63. Labour Migration
- 64. Women and Colonial Modernity
- 65. The Historical India–Nepal Borderland Economy
- 66. Janakpur as Religious, Commercial and Urban Centre
- 67. Land, Tenancy and Agrarian Society in the Nepal Tarai
- 68. Forest Clearance, Malaria Control and Demographic Transformation
- 69. Migration and Settlement
- 70. Language, Education and Cultural Institutions in Nepal
- 71. Gender, Citizenship and Household Economy in Madhesh
- 72. Janakpur Art, Crafts and Cultural Economy
- 73. Border Markets, Remittances and Informal Exchange
- 74. Independence, Land Reform and Agrarian Change in Bihar
- 75. Abolition of Zamindari and Its Uneven Consequences
- 76. Agriculture after Independence
- 77. Kosi, Gandak and Major River-Development Projects
- 78. Floods as Social and Economic History
- 79. Rural Credit, Indebtedness and Banking
- 80. Cooperatives and Rural Institutions
- 81. Industrialisation and Its Limits
- 82. Bhagalpur Silk and Anga’s Textile Economy
- 83. Makhana, Fish, Dairy and Specialised Regional Economies
- 84. Education after Independence
- 85. Health and Public-Health Transformation
- 86. Roads, Railways, Electricity and Communications
- 87. Historical Formation of Caste Relations
- 88. Dalit Histories
- 89. Adivasi and Forest-Connected Populations Where Regionally Relevant
- 90. Muslims of Mithila and Anga
- 91. Gender and the Household Economy
- 92. Women’s Paid and Unpaid Labour
- 93. Marriage, Dowry, Inheritance and Changing Family Structures
- 94. Education and Social Mobility
- 95. Reservation, Affirmative Action and New Middle Classes
- 96. Rural Elites, Political Economy and Changing Landed Power
- 97. The Longue Durée of Migration
- 98. Calcutta/Kolkata and Mithila–Anga Migration
- 99. Delhi, Mumbai and Post-Independence Mobility
- 100. Punjab, Haryana and Seasonal Agricultural Labour
- 101. Nepal–India Circular Migration
- 102. Gulf Migration
- 103. Remittances and Household Transformation
- 104. Urbanisation
- 105. Informal Economies and Street Commerce
- 106. Diaspora Cultural Institutions
- 107. Maithili Print and Literary Institutions
- 108. Angika Print and Literary Institutions
- 109. Radio and Broadcasting
- 110. Cinema, Video and Recorded Performance
- 111. Newspapers and Public Debate
- 112. Sahitya Akademi, Academies and Institutional Canon Formation
- 113. Women Writers and Alternative Literary Publics
- 114. Videha and Digital Literary Culture
- 115. Digital Archives and Cultural Preservation
- 116. Unicode, Tirhuta and Technological Recognition
- 117. Demographic Structure and Population Change
- 118. Agriculture in the Twenty-First Century
- 119. Land Fragmentation and Rural Livelihoods
- 120. Migration-dependent Economies
- 121. Remittances, Consumption and Housing
- 122. Education Economy and Coaching Migration
- 123. Health Economy
- 124. Roads, Highways, Airports and Connectivity
- 125. Digital Payments, Mobile Phones and Platform Economies
- 126. Tourism and Pilgrimage Economies
- 127. Mithila Painting in the Global Market
- 128. GI, Heritage Branding and Intellectual Property
- 129. Climate Change and Agrarian Risk
- 130. Flood Adaptation and Resilience
- 131. India–Nepal Border Economies after Federalisation
- 132. Family Transformation
- 133. Changing Marriage Practices
- 134. Gender, Education and Employment
- 135. Youth Culture
- 136. Social Media and Language
- 137. Religious Change and Public Ritual
- 138. Caste in Contemporary Society
- 139. Madhesh, Federalism and Social Citizenship
- 140. Maithili, Angika and Bajjika in Contemporary Public Life
- 141. Cultural Heritage versus Living Culture
- 142. The Future of the Regional Cultural Economy
- 143. The longue durée of social change
- 144. From Subsistence to Market Integration
- 145. Household, Caste, Class and Gender across Time
- 146. Riverine Ecology and Economic History
- 147. Language as Social Infrastructure
- 148. India and Nepal: One Interaction Zone, Multiple Political Economies
- 149. Cultural Persistence, Reinvention and Modern Institutions
- 150. Conclusion: Socio-Cultural-Economic Histories without Timeless Essences
Parallel Philosophy — Volume I — Maithili (72)
- 1. दर्शन की अछि?
- 2. प्रश्र, संशय आ प्रमाण
- 3. सत्य आ दृष्टिकोण
- 4. ज़ानक सीमा
- 5. समानान्तर दर्शनक पद्धति
- 6. वैदिक चिन्तन आ उपनिषदिंक प्रश्र
- 7. सांख्य
- 8. योग
- 9. न्याय
- 10. वैशेषिक
- 11. पूर्वमीमांसा
- 12. वेदान्त
- 13. बौद्ध दर्शन
- 14. जैन दर्शन
- 15. लोकायत आ भौतिकवादी प्रश्र
- 16. भाषा, शब्द आ अर्थ
- 17. विदेहः प्रश्रक भूगोल
- 18. याज़वल्क्य, गार्गी आ मैत्रेयी
- 19. न्याय-वैशेषिक आ मिथिलाक तार्किक संस्कार
- 20. उदयनाचार्य
- 21. वाचस्पति मिश्र
- 22. गङ्गेश उपाध्याय
- 23. नव्म-न्यायः भाषाक सूक्ष्म अनुशासन
- 24. लोक, शास्त्र आ समानान्तर मिथिला
- 25. यूनानी प्रश्र
- 26. सुकरात, प्लेटो आ अरस्तू
- 27. मध्ययुगीन दर्शन
- 28. देकार्त, स्पिनोजा आ लाइबनित्स
- 29. लॉक, बर्कली आ हघूम
- 30. कान्ट
- 31. हेगेल आ हन्द
- 32. मार्क्स
- 33. कीर्केगार्द आ नीत्शै
- 34. प्रघटनावाद आ अस्तित्ववाद
- 35. विश्लेषणात्मक दर्शन
- 36. सवहारवाद
- 37. विज्ञान-दर्शन
- 38. व्यक्ति आ समाज
- 39. अध्याय 39
- 40. स्वतंत्रता
- 41. समानता
- 42. न्याय
- 43. जाति आ सामाजिक पदानुक्रम
- 44. वर्ग आ आर्थिक सत्ता
- 45. स्त्री, लिंग आ सत्ता
- 46. भाषा, क्षेत्र आ अस्मिता
- 47. लोकतन्त्र
- 48. गांधी
- 49. आम्बेडकर
- 50. धर्म की अछि?
- 51. ईश्वरक प्रश्र
- 52. आस्था आतर्क
- 53. दुःख आ अशुभक समस्या
- 54. कर्म, पुनर्जन्म आ मोक्ष
- 55. धर्मबहुलता
- 56. धर्म आ राज्य
- 57. लोकधर्म आ संस्थागत धर्म
- 58. आधुनिकता
- 59. विज्ञान आ मनुष्य
- 60. भाषा आ सत्ता
- 61. इतिहास आ स्मृतिं
- 62. ज़ञान आ डिजिटल संसार
- 63. कृत्रिम बुद्धि आ मनुष्पक उत्तरदायित्व
- 64. पर्यावरण आ भावी पौद़ी
- 65. बहुप्रमाणौय विवेकवाद
- 66. सहअस्तित्वात्मक यथार्थवाद
- 67. गरिमा-आधारित नैतिकता
- 68. बहुकेन्द्रिक लोकतन्त्र
- 69. अध्याय 69
- 70. समानान्तर इतिहास-दृष्टि
- 71. समानान्तर दर्शनक सूत्र
- 72. उपसंहारः समानान्तर रहबाक अर्थ
Parallel Philosophy — Volume I — English (72)
- 1. What Is Philosophy?
- 2. Questions, Doubt, and Pramāṇa
- 3. Truth and Perspective
- 4. The Limits of Knowledge
- 5. The Method of Parallel Philosophy
- 6. Vedic Thought and Upanishadic Questions
- 7. Sāṃkhya
- 8. Yoga
- 9. Nyāya
- 10. Vaiśeṣika
- 11. Pūrvamīmāṃsā
- 12. Vedānta
- 13. Buddhist Philosophy
- 14. Jain Philosophy
- 15. Lokāyata and Materialist Questions
- 16. Language, Word, and Meaning
- 17. Videha: A Geography of Questioning
- 18. Yājñavalkya, Gārgī, and Maitreyī
- 19. Nyāya–Vaiśeṣika and Mithila’s Logical
- 20. Udayanācārya
- 21. Vācaspati Miśra
- 22. Gaṅgeśa Upādhyāya
- 23. Navya-Nyāya: The Subtle Discipline of
- 24. Folk Tradition, Śāstra, and Parallel Mithila
- 25. Greek Questions
- 26. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
- 27. Medieval Philosophy
- 28. Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz
- 29. Locke, Berkeley, and Hume
- 30. Kant
- 31. Hegel and Dialectic
- 32. Marx
- 33. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
- 34. Phenomenology and Existentialism
- 35. Analytic Philosophy
- 36. Pragmatism
- 37. Philosophy of Science
- 38. The Individual and Society
- 39. The Justification of the State
- 40. Freedom
- 41. Equality
- 42. Justice
- 43. Caste and Social Hierarchy
- 44. Class and Economic Power
- 45. Women, Gender, and Power
- 46. Language, Region, and Identity
- 47. Democracy
- 48. Gandhi
- 49. Ambedkar
- 50. What Is Religion?
- 51. The Question of God
- 52. Faith and Reason
- 53. The Problem of Suffering and Evil
- 54. Karma, Rebirth, and Mokṣa
- 55. Religious Plurality
- 56. Religion and the State
- 57. Folk Religion and Institutional Religion
- 58. Modernity
- 59. Science and the Human Being
- 60. Language and Power
- 61. History and Memory
- 62. Knowledge and the Digital World
- 63. Artificial Intelligence and Human
- 64. The Environment and Future Generations
- 65. Multi-Pramāṇa Rationalism
- 66. Coexistential Realism
- 67. Dignity-Based Ethics
- 68. Polycentric Democracy
- 69. The Rational Plurality of Religion
- 70. A Parallel View of History
- 71. The Aphorisms of Parallel Philosophy
- 72. Epilogue
Parallel Philosophy — Volume II — Maithili (100)
- 1. दर्शनक दोसर मोड़: चेतनासँ भाषा धरि
- 2. बीसम शताब्दीमे दर्शन किएक बदलल?
- 3. विश्लेषणात्मक आ महाद्वीपीय दर्शनक विभाजन
- 4. भारतीय दर्शन एहि नक्शामे कतय?
- 5. मिथिलाक समानान्तर प्रवेश-बिन्दु
- 6. तुलनात्मक दर्शनक खतरा
- 7. फ्रेगे: तर्क, अर्थ आ सन्दर्भ
- 8. रसेल: वर्णन, तार्किक रूप आ जगत
- 9. मूर आ सामान्य बुद्धि
- 10. आरम्भिक विट्गेन्स्टाइन: भाषा, तथ्य, चित्र आ कथनीयताक सीमा
- 11. तार्किक प्रत्यक्षवाद: सत्यापन, विज्ञान आ तत्त्वमीमांसाक सीमा
- 12. कार्नाप आ तत्त्वमीमांसाक प्रश्न
- 13. क्वाइन: विश्लेषणात्मक–संश्लेषणात्मक भेदक संकट
- 14. विश्लेषणात्मक दर्शन आ नव्य-न्याय
- 15. उत्तरकालीन विट्गेन्स्टाइन: अर्थ प्रयोगमे
- 16. ऑस्टिन: कहब सेहो करब अछि
- 17. सर्ल आ भाषिक क्रिया
- 18. भाषा निजी भऽ सकैत अछि की?
- 19. शब्दक अर्थ: वस्तु, प्रयोग कि सम्बन्ध?
- 20. भारतीय शब्दमीमांसा
- 21. मिथिलाक भाषिक विश्लेषण
- 22. संरचना की अछि?
- 23. सस्यूर: संकेतक आ संकेतित
- 24. लेवी-स्ट्रॉस: मिथक आ संरचना
- 25. संरचना आ व्यक्ति
- 26. भारतीय भाषिक परम्परा आ संरचना
- 27. संरचनावादक सीमा
- 28. संरचनासँ उत्तर-संरचना धरि
- 29. देरिदा: उपस्थितिक तत्त्वमीमांसाक आलोचना
- 30. différance: अर्थक स्थगन आ भिन्नता
- 31. लेखन, वाणी आ केन्द्रक प्रश्न
- 32. विखण्डन की अछि—आ की नहि अछि?
- 33. भारतीय दर्शन आ विखण्डन
- 34. नव्य-न्याय विखण्डनक प्रतिपक्ष?
- 35. समानान्तर उत्तरपक्ष
- 36. ज्ञान आ सत्ता अलग छथि की?
- 37. फूकोक पुरातत्त्व
- 38. वंशावली: इतिहास लिखबाक दोसर ढंग
- 39. अनुशासन, निगरानी आ सामान्यीकरण
- 40. शरीर, संस्था आ ज्ञान
- 41. फूको आ समानान्तर इतिहास-दृष्टि
- 42. उत्तर-आधुनिकता की अछि?
- 43. ल्योटार आ महाख्यानपर अविश्वास
- 44. बौद्रियार: प्रतिरूप, माध्यम आ अतियथार्थता
- 45. सत्यक अन्त भेल की?
- 46. विज्ञान, इतिहास आ उत्तर-आधुनिक आलोचना
- 47. समानान्तर दर्शनक उत्तर
- 48. हर्मेन्यूटिक्स: बुझब स्वयं समस्या किएक?
- 49. गाडामर: परम्परा आ पूर्वबोध
- 50. रिकोयर: पाठ, प्रतीक आ व्याख्या
- 51. लेखकक अभिप्राय बनाम पाठकक अर्थ
- 52. भारतीय भाष्य-परम्परा
- 53. मिथिलाक शास्त्रार्थ एकटा व्याख्यात्मक अभ्यास (hermeneutic practice) केर रूपमे?
- 54. फ्रैंकफर्ट स्कूल
- 55. होर्खाइमर आ अडोर्नो: आधुनिक विवेकक आत्मालोचना
- 56. मार्क्यूजे: उपभोक्ता समाज आ एक-आयामी मनुष्य
- 57. हाबर्मास: संवादात्मक विवेक
- 58. सार्वजनिक क्षेत्र आ लोकतन्त्र
- 59. शास्त्रार्थ, वाद आ संवादात्मक विवेक
- 60. स्त्रीवादी दर्शनक अनेक स्वर
- 61. सिमोन द बोउवार: स्त्री बनाओल जाइत अछि
- 62. देह, अनुभव आ सत्ता
- 63. जूडिथ बटलर: gender, performativity आ पहचान
- 64. intersectionality: जाति, वर्ग, लिंग, धर्म आ क्षेत्र
- 65. भारतीय स्त्रीवादी दर्शनक प्रश्न
- 66. मिथिलाक समानान्तर स्त्री-दृष्टि
- 67. औपनिवेशिक ज्ञान की करैत अछि?
- 68. एडवर्ड सईद: Orientalism
- 69. गायत्री स्पिवाक: अधीनस्थ बोलि सकैत अछि?
- 70. होमी भाभा: संकरता आ औपनिवेशिक अन्तराल
- 71. Subaltern Studies आ इतिहासक हाशिया
- 72. उत्तर-औपनिवेशिकतासँ decolonial विचार धरि
- 73. भारतीय दर्शनक औपनिवेशिक वर्गीकरण
- 74. मिथिला: साम्राज्य, राष्ट्र आ क्षेत्रक बीच
- 75. Philosophy of Mind केर नूतन प्रश्न
- 76. मन–देह समस्या
- 77. व्यवहारवाद, identity theory आ functionalism
- 78. चेतनाक कठिन समस्या
- 79. intentionality आ self
- 80. भारतीय आत्मा–अनात्मा–चित्त विवाद
- 81. न्याय, बौद्ध आ आधुनिक मन-दर्शन (philosophy of mind) केर त्रिकोणीय संवाद
- 82. वैज्ञानिक यथार्थवादक नूतन विवाद
- 83. प्राकृतिक विज्ञान आ सामाजिक विज्ञान
- 84. तकनीक केवल औजार नहि
- 85. डिजिटल जगतमे सत्य
- 86. एल्गोरिदम, वर्गीकरण आ सत्ता
- 87. कृत्रिम बुद्धि: बुद्धि की अछि?
- 88. मशीन चेतना: प्रश्न खुलल अछि
- 89. कृत्रिम बुद्धि (AI) युगमे प्रमाण आ उत्तरदायित्व
- 90. बहुप्रमाणीय विवेकवादक दोसर रूप
- 91. सहअस्तित्वात्मक यथार्थवाद आ भाषिक मोड़
- 92. गरिमा-आधारित नैतिकता आ नूतन पहचान
- 93. बहुकेन्द्रिक लोकतन्त्र आ नेटवर्क-सत्ता
- 94. धर्मक विवेकपूर्ण बहुलता आ उत्तर-धर्मनिरपेक्ष समाज
- 95. समानान्तर इतिहास-दृष्टि: वंशावली-पद्धति (genealogy), अभिलेखागार (archive) आ प्रमाण
- 96. आत्मसमीक्षा: समानान्तर दर्शन स्वयं अपन विखण्डन कोना स्वीकारत?
- 97. संरचना अछि, मुदा संरचना नियति नहि
- 98. भाषा सीमा अछि, मुदा कारागार नहि
- 99. सत्ता ज्ञानकेँ प्रभावित करैत अछि, सत्यकेँ मनमाना नहि बनबैत अछि
- 100. गजेन्द्र ठाकुरक समानान्तर दर्शन: खण्ड–१ आ खण्ड–२ केर समेकित प्रतिपादन
Parallel Philosophy — Volume II — English (100)
- 1. Philosophy’s Second Turn: From Consciousness to Language
- 2. Why Did Philosophy Change in the Twentieth Century?
- 3. The Analytic–Continental Divide
- 4. Where Does Indian Philosophy Belong on This Map?
- 5. Mithila’s Parallel Points of Entry
- 6. The Dangers of Comparative Philosophy
- 7. Frege: Logic, Sense and Reference
- 8. Russell: Descriptions, Logical Form and the World
- 9. Moore and Common Sense
- 10. Early Wittgenstein
- 11. Logical Positivism
- 12. Carnap and the Question of Metaphysics
- 13. Quine: The Crisis of the Analytic–Synthetic Distinction
- 14. Analytic Philosophy and Navya-Nyāya
- 15. Later Wittgenstein: Meaning in Use
- 16. Austin: Saying Is Also Doing
- 17. Searle and Speech Acts
- 18. Can Language Be Private?
- 19. The Meaning of a Word: Object, Use, or Relation?
- 20. Indian Theories of Linguistic Meaning
- 21. Mithila’s Linguistic Analysis
- 22. What Is Structure?
- 23. Saussure: Signifier and Signified
- 24. Lévi-Strauss: Myth and Structure
- 25. Structure and the Individual
- 26. Indian Linguistic Traditions and Structure
- 27. The Limits of Structuralism
- 28. From Structure to Post-Structure
- 29. Derrida: Critique of the Metaphysics of Presence
- 30. The Deferred Process of Meaning-Difference: Deferral and
- 31. Writing, Speech, and the Question of the Centre
- 32. What Is Deconstruction—and What Is It Not?
- 33. Indian Philosophy and Deconstruction
- 34. Is Navya-Nyāya a Counterposition to Deconstruction?
- 35. The Parallel Uttarapakṣa
- 36. Are Knowledge and Power Separate?
- 37. Foucault's Archaeology
- 38. Genealogy: Another Way of Writing History
- 39. Discipline, Surveillance and Normalization
- 40. Body, Institution and Knowledge
- 41. Foucault and the Parallel Historical Perspective
- 42. What Is Postmodernity?
- 43. Lyotard and Incredulity toward Metanarratives
- 44. Baudrillard: Simulacra, Media and Hyperreality
- 45. Has Truth Ended?
- 46. Science, History and Postmodern Critique
- 47. The Response of Parallel Philosophy
- 48. Hermeneutics: Why Is Understanding Itself a Problem?
- 49. Gadamer: Tradition and Fore-understanding
- 50. Ricoeur: Text, Symbol and Interpretation
- 51. Authorial Intention versus the Reader's Meaning
- 52. The Indian Commentary Tradition
- 53. Mithila's Śāstrārtha as a Hermeneutic Practice?
- 54. The Frankfurt School
- 55. Horkheimer and Adorno: The Self-Critique of Modern
- 56. Marcuse: Consumer Society and One-Dimensional Man
- 57. Habermas: Communicative Reason
- 58. The Public Sphere and Democracy
- 59. Śāstrārtha, Debate and Communicative Reason
- 60. The Many Voices of Feminist Philosophy
- 61. Simone de Beauvoir: Woman Is Made
- 62. Body, Experience and Power
- 63. Judith Butler: Gender, Performativity and Identity
- 64. Intersectional Inequality: Caste, Class, Gender, Religion and
- 65. Questions of Indian Feminist Philosophy
- 66. Mithila’s Parallel Feminist Perspective
- 67. What Does Colonial Knowledge Do?
- 68. Edward Said: Orientalism
- 69. Gayatri Spivak: Can the Subaltern Speak?
- 70. Homi Bhabha: Hybridity and the Colonial Interstice
- 71. Subaltern Studies and the Margins of History
- 72. From Postcoloniality to Decolonial Thought
- 73. Colonial Classification of Indian Philosophy
- 74. Mithila: Between Empire, Nation and Region
- 75. New Questions in Philosophy of Mind
- 76. The Mind–Body Problem
- 77. Behaviourism, Identity Theory and Functionalism
- 78. The Hard Problem of Consciousness
- 79. Intentionality and Self
- 80. Indian Debates on Ātman, Anātman and Citta
- 81. A Triangular Dialogue among Nyāya, Buddhism and Modern
- 82. New Debates in Scientific Realism
- 83. Natural Science and Social Science
- 84. Technology Is Not Merely a Tool
- 85. Truth in the Digital World
- 86. Algorithms, Classification and Power
- 87. Artificial Intelligence: What Is Intelligence?
- 88. Machine Consciousness: The Question Remains Open
- 89. Evidence and Accountability in the Age of Artificial
- 90. The Second Form of Multi-Evidential Rationalism
- 91. Coexistential Realism and the Linguistic Turn
- 92. Dignity-Based Ethics and New Identities
- 93. Polycentric Democracy and Network Power
- 94. Rational Plurality of Religion and the Post-Secular Society
- 95. The Parallel View of History: Genealogy, Archive and
- 96. Self-Critique: How Will Parallel Philosophy Accept Its Own
- 97. Structure Exists, but Structure Is Not Destiny
- 98. Language Is a Limit, but Not a Prison
- 99. Power Influences Knowledge, but Does Not Make Truth
- 100. Gajendra Thakur’s Parallel Philosophy: Integrated