{"title":"Books by Jonardon Ganeri","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780192856746","title":"Classical Indian Philosophy","description":"Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India. They begin with the earliest extant literature, the Vedas, and the explanatory works that these inspired, known as Upanisads. They also discuss other famous texts of classical Vedic culture, especially the Mahabharata and its most notable section, the Bhagavad-Gita, alongside the rise of Buddhism and Jainism. In this opening section, Adamson and Ganeri emphasize the way that philosophy was practiced as a form of life in search of liberation from suffering. Next, the pair move on to the explosion of philosophical speculation devoted to foundational texts called 'sutras,' discussing such traditions as the logical and epistemological Nyaya school, the monism of Advaita Vedanta, and the spiritual discipline of Yoga. In the final section of the book, they chart further developments within Buddhism, highlighting Nagarjuna's radical critique of 'non-dependent' concepts and the no-self philosophy of mind found in authors like Dignaga, and within Jainism, focusing especially on its 'standpoint' epistemology. Unlike other introductions that cover the main schools and positions in classical Indian philosophy, Adamson and Ganeri's lively guide also pays attention to philosophical themes such as non-violence, political authority, and the status of women, while considering textual traditions typically left out of overviews of Indian thought, like the Carvaka school, Tantra, and aesthetic theory as well. Adamson and Ganeri conclude by focusing on the much-debated question of whether Indian philosophy may have influenced ancient Greek philosophy and, from there, evaluate the impact that this area of philosophy had on later Western thought.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56225849803125,"sku":"9780192856746","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57697056031093,"sku":"9780198851769","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780192856746.jpg?v=1793083620"},{"product_id":"9780197636688","title":"Fernando Pessoa","description":"Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is the quintessential philosophical outsider. Affiliated to no institution, and associated with no traditional school, in his prose fiction and poetry, Pessoa invented a new philosophy of the human subject, arguing that imagination is key to human flourishing and human self-enrichment. Each of us, he claimed, can use our powers of imagination to “pluralise ourselves;” that is to say, to live, simultaneously and in sequence, as a plurality of distinct subjects. Calling these artefact minds “heteronyms”, Pessoan synthetic selves are new ways poetically to experience the world. In this study of the philosophical thought of Pessoa, philosopher Jonardon Ganeri highlights connections between Pessoa with earlier philosophical poets, from Keats to Shakespeare and from Coleridge to Whitman. Ganeri emphasises Pessoa's originality in his theory of the human subject as a radical departure from the history of Christian or Islamic thought, highlighting affinities with ideas from works of philosophical fiction in classical India through an examination of Pessoa's own engagement with Indian poetry and philosophy. Ganeri convincingly argues for the need to consider Pessoa's writings as a philosopher, both on their own terms and as in deep conversation with the tradition of Indian thought.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56226170012021,"sku":"9780197636688","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780197636688_04b88ce5-a05f-471f-9c71-fcebc2e01679.jpg?v=1786011673"},{"product_id":"seeing-and-subjectivity","title":"Seeing and Subjectivity","description":"Seeing and Subjectivity is a search for the emergence of subjectivity within our ability to see. If we are to make sense of ourselves as subjective creatures, the notion of presentation, which undergrids all our perceptual commerce with the world we inhabit, is more complicated than has hitherto been realized. On the basis of a distinction between what is presented as-present and what is presented as-absent, Jonardon Ganeri distinguishes between two types of perceptual consciousness^—^\"animal\" perception and \"reflective\" perception. As opposed to animal perception, reflective perception is a sophisticated and advantageous variety of perception, a sort of perception requiring subjectivity in the perceiver and whose most minimal form is the perception of absence. A recognition of the fundamentality of the notion of reflective perception is key to understanding our place as subjective beings in the world. Its existence is most prominently witnessed in our perception of artworks, in poetic experience, and in aesthetic emotion.This book draws on Indian theories about the nature of perceptual consciousness, on insights into aesthetic subjectivity from Sanskrit aesthetics, and from the ideas of twentieth-century Indian philosophers. The philosophical method employed in the book is an avowedly cosmopolitan one, the cosmopolitan philosopher claiming that it is essential to consider theories from a plurality of philosophical cultures if one's ambition is to discover a fundamental theory true of ourselves as human beings.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499225522549,"sku":"9780197913383","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780197913383.jpg?v=1786694543"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jonardon-ganeri.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}