Culture of Memory in South Asia reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European “textual” inheritances. The main argument of this work is that the reflective and generative nodes of Indian cultural formations are…
Freemasonry and Power: The Paradoxes of Petersburg -- Utopia and Reform in Moscow: N. I. Novikov’s Circle -- Russian Rosicrucianism, between East and West -- The Rosicrucians and Authority: An Alliance of the Throne and the Altar.The author undertakes an investigation into the history of Russian Freemasonry that has not been attempted previously. Her premise is that the Russian Enlightenment …
Marx, Marxist Philosophy and the Construction of ‘Orthodoxy’ -- Qu Qiubai and the Origins of Marxist Philosophy in China -- Qu Qiubai and the Origins of Marxist Philosophy in China -- The New Philosophy and Marxist Philosophy in China -- Ai Siqi and Mao Zedong -- Ai Siqi on the New Philosophy -- Li Da and Marxist Philosophy in China -- Mao Zedong and the New Philosophy -- Mao Zedong on Dial…