Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations - Key Issues in Modern Sociology

Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today?s world, requiring not only emancipation from oppressive structures but also from the oppressive self.  It is a multidimensional struggle and aspiration in which knowledge ? self, social and spiritual ? can play a transformative role. ?Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary Realizations? undertakes such a journey of transformation, and seeks to rethink knowledge vis-à-vis the familiar themes of human interest, critical theory, enlightenment, ethnography, democracy, pluralism, rationality, secularism and cosmopolitanism. The volume also features a Foreword by John Clammer (United Nations University, Tokyo) and an Afterword by Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame).