A Study of Time in Indian Philosophy

This book, based on original sources, is an authentic study of the distinctly different views on time that have emerged from and have, in turn, shaped the Indian conceptual world. Apart from succinctly demonstrating the impact of these views on the exploration and formulation of such basic concepts as those of being, becoming, causality, creation and annihilation, the work has - as critics have acclaimed since its first publication - successfully shown "the simple falsity" of such clichés that the Indian view of time is "cyclic" or exclusively "illusory". It has been, therefore, observed that this book makes an excellent introduction to the heart of Indian thought. It is considered to be a major contribution as well in cross-cultural philosophical conversations.

Anindita N. Balslev (MA, University of Calcutta; PhD, University of Paris) is a phil-osopher of international repute. Her research and teaching experience span over India, France, USA and Denmark. She has served on the board of several international organizations in USA and has been awarded scholarship from Government of France, twice fellowship from Denmark and recently the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship, New Delhi.

Apart from many papers in professional journals, she is the author of A Study of Time in Indian Philosophy (1' edn, Germany; 2nd, 3rd and now 4th edns, New Delhi); Cultural Otherness: Correspondence with Richard Rorty (OUP, New York, 2000); The Enigma of I-Consciousness (OUP, New Delhi, 2013); A Bouquet of Fourteen Essays: On Indian Philosophical Themes (D.K. Printworld, New Delhi) and Cross Cultural Conversation: A New Way of Learning (Routledge, London, 2019). She has organized several important CCC international conferences and has edited more than half a dozen books.

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