THIRD WAY AS THE APPLIED INTEGRAL HUMANISM:GOING BEYOND THE BINARIES
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.53555/2eet5w09Keywords:
Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay’s , Integral Humanism, enterprise culture, neoliberalism, Scholastic textualisation, prioriAbstract
This paper aims to interpret and analyse Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay’s Integral Humanism and Dattatray Thengdi’s Third Way as the formulation of a path-breaking breakthrough in India. The paper investigates the efficacy of the culturally relevant frameworks of Integral Humanism and Third Way (IH-TW) in the wake of enterprise culture and neoliberalism whose thought processes did not require a groundwork in the form of any pre-existing ideology (Mukherjee, 2018). ‘Scholastic textualisation’ of the socio-cultural values in India is not a ‘priori’ but a ‘posteriori’ for IH-TW (Chatterjee, 1993).
It also aims to briefly analyse the reconstructions of Marxism in Europe by Marxist thinkers who undertook the deconstruction of Marxist theory (Lukács, 1971; Gramsci, 1975). The baggage of the colonial past was the causal condition for deshaj (parallel for culturally responsive) thinking to be undertaken by Deendayal Upadhyay and Dattopant Thengdi (Nandy, 1983). Hence, they took into consideration the ‘trajectories’ of the Marxian model of thinking in Indian consciousness (Banerjee, 2005).
The article mainly aims to focus on how Integral Humanism and its applied formulations in Third Way provide insights not only to offer an alternative to ‘Classical Marxism’ of the Old Left, but also to ‘Neo Marxism’ as ‘theorised’ by the New Left (Jameson, 1991; Harvey, 1989).
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