The intellectual history, the history of epistemological order, the archaeology of knowledge, the history of ideas and the great chain of being have conspicuously articulated that the process and the reality of the formation of knowledge have been dialectical as they include the realities of 'Thesis', 'Antithesis and 'Synthesis'. G. W. F. Hegel's philosophy of 'Dialectical Idealism' and Immanuel Kant's ideas of 'Critique' and 'Antinomy' have explained that dialectics is a dynamic process of intellectual exploration that seeks to move beyond simple dualities to reach a richer, more nuanced understanding of reality. In the process of developing a more nuanced understanding of reality or truth, the emergence of antithesis challenges the certain foundations of the thesis. Thus, the process of negation and progression continues to add new dimensions to the existing order of knowledge and determine the contemporary perspectives on the epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, ontology, phenomenology and hermeneutics of knowledge and realities. The present anthology is the fructification of the dialectical process that allows some fertile passages where some relatively more challenging and intellectually, theoretically and philosophically complex critical thoughts, concepts and ideas may emerge to encapsulate the changing realities of the socio-pragmatic realities. The anthology consists of seventeen well researched critical papers covering three major dimensions of human existence; language, literature and society.
The history of the growth, development and progression of the homo sapiens has been the diachronic account of the dialectical development of human thoughts, ideas, consciousness, epistemic structures, ideology, the progression of the intellectual tradition and the tradition of knowledge traversing through the conduits of language and literature which are inextricably intertwined into the complex rubric of the human society. Several philosophers and theorists who espouse the philosophy of historical determinism have expounded that historical context play pivotal roles in constituting the existence of human beings in the world of socio-pragmatic realities. These realities are inviolably associated with the complex structure of society which encompasses historical, political, social, economic, linguistic and cultural realities. Society has nurtured the rich complexes of literature and language and the structures of language and literatures have shaped the complex terra firma of society.
Michel Foucault's The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1966), The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) and Power/Knowledge; Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977 (1980) have delineated that the structures of epistemes, truth and discourse have been constituted by the structure of language. Several philosophers, linguists, grammarian and literary theorists have explored the uncanny and ambivalent world of language. Some logocentric philosophers have explained language as a Causa Prima of human consciousness, thoughts and ideas. It appears to be sui generis as it is ubiquitous and autotelic. Greco-Roman philosophers particularly Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Cicero, Quintilian, Epictetus. Horace, Longinus et cetera have explained the role of language in determining human consciousness, ideology and the epistemic structure. Similarly, some medieval philosophers St Augustine, Boethius, Peter Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Roger Bacon and many others have explained the role of language in the entire philosophical systems of Scholasticism and Neoplatonism. Further. the Indian philosophical tradition has particularly emphasized upon the role of language in determining and constructing the realities of the world. The Indian philosophers of language and grammarians particularly Panini, Katyayan, Patanjali and Bhartrihari have explicated the nature, form and function of language. K. A. Subramania Iyer in his The Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari (1965) has represented language as logos or Braham. The logocentric paradigm of language continued to control the existence of human life through language. Some socio-linguists and the platitudes of anthropological linguistics have explained the role of language in determining epistemological, phenomenological and existential realities of the world.
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