Kathleen M. Higgins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. Her main areas of research are aesthetics, continental philosophy, and philosophy of emotion. She is author of a number of books, including The Music of Our Lives (1991/ rev. 2011) and The Music between Us: Is Music the Universal Language? (2012), which received the American Society for Aesthetics Outstanding Monograph Prize in 2013. She has been a Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Shakti Maira is a respected contemporary artist in India. His work is in international collections and in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi. In 2005 he helped organize the ‘Learning through the Arts in Asia’ symposium. Subsequently, UNESCO invited him to formulate <The Asian Vision of Arts in Education: Learning through the Arts. His book, Towards Ananda: Rethinking Indian Art and Aesthetics was published by Penguin/Viking in India in 2006. His paper, “Socio-cultural Learning through the Arts in India” was included in Transmissions and Transformations – Learning through the Arts in Asia, edited by Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, published by Primus Books, India (2011).
Sonia Sikka is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ottawa. Her primary areas of research are philosophy of culture, philosophy of religion and continental philosophy. She is the author of Herder on Humanity and Cultural Difference: Enlightened Relativism (2011), and editor, with Lori Beaman, of Multiculturalism and Religious Canada and India (2014). Her current research focuses on the idea of religion, and on intersections between religion and politics.
12 Ebooks by Sonia Sikka
Lori G. Beaman & Sonia Sikka: Constructions of Self and Other in Yoga, Travel, and Tourism
This volume considers the phenomenon of yoga travel as an instance of a broader genre of ‘spiritual travel’ involving journeys to places ‘elsewhere’, which are imagined to offer the possibility of pr …
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€53.49
Kathleen M. Higgins & Shakti Maira: Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty
This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the …
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€96.29
Lori G. Beaman & Sonia Sikka: Multiculturalism and Religious Identity
How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Religious Identity addresses this question by examining the political recognition and ma …
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€34.65
Lori G. Beaman & Bindu Puri: Living with Religious Diversity
Looking beyond exclusively state-oriented solutions to the management of religious diversity, this book explores ways of fostering respectful, non-violent and welcoming social relations among religio …
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€61.86
Lori G. Beaman & Bindu Puri: Living with Religious Diversity
Looking beyond exclusively state-oriented solutions to the management of religious diversity, this book explores ways of fostering respectful, non-violent and welcoming social relations among religio …
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€61.75
Lori G. Beaman & Sonia Sikka: Multiculturalism and Religious Identity
How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism? Multiculturalism and Religious Identity addresses this question by examining the political recognition and ma …
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€34.69
Ashwani Peetush & Sonia Sikka: Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion
With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philo …
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€51.24
Ashwani Peetush & Sonia Sikka: Asian Philosophies and the Idea of Religion
With a focus on Asian traditions, this book examines varieties of thought and self-transformative practice that do not fit neatly on one side or another of the standard Western division between philo …
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€51.50
Herder’s Essay on Being
Presents the first English translation of Herder’s foundational essay along with critical responses to it by today’s leading Herder scholars. In recent years, Johann Gottfried Herder has been the foc …
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€29.99