Westology and its nonsense
What is the logic of my argument? Am I proposing a ‘westology’? Let me briefly explicate my stances, beginning with the last question. 1. If we are not to simply…
Read moreWhy study the Western culture?
Two substantial questions have been raised in response to what I wrote: (a) why do we need to study and understand the Western culture in order to access our own…
Read moreOn Rajiv’s history-centrism—S.N.Balagangadhara
Can history-centrism cause some religion or the other to be belief-based? The notion of “history-centrism” is too vague to allow a serious answer. In so far as this refers to…
Read moreWhy ‘Westology’ ala Indology doomed to fail?
1.1. The inherent logic of such an enterprise forces one, as it were, to build alternate theories to the existing, ‘western’ theories. Instead of explaining this statement in the abstract,…
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