Awadh Kishore Saran (1922 – 2003), popularly known as A. K. Saran, was an Indian scholar, editor, and writer who was one of the most influential voices on traditionalist thoughts in the Hindu world.[1][2]
Career
editSaran's works frequently featured traditionalists and perennialist philosophers such as Frithjof Schuon and, in particular, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, whom Saran first encountered when he was ten years old.[1] He served as a professor of sociology at the University of Lucknow in Lucknow, India[3] and held the Gamaliel chair in peace and justice at the Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[4]
Works
edit- Traditional thought: Toward an axiomatic approach : a book on reminders (Samyag-vak special series) (1996)
- Illuminations: A School for the Regeneration of Man's Experience, Imagination, and Intellectual Integrity : a Proposal (in Two Parts) (1996)
- On the Intellectual Vocation: A Rosary of Edifying Texts with an Analytical-elucidatory Essay (1996)
- Sociology of knowledge and traditional thought (Samyag-vāk special series) (1998)
- Traditional Vision of Man (1998)
- Takamori Lecture: The Crisis of Mankind : an Inquiry Into Originally/novelty, Power/violence (1999)
- The Marxian theory of social change : a logico-philosophical critique (2000)
- Meaning and Truth; Lectures on the Theory of Language : A Prolegomena to the General Theory of Society and Culture (2003)
- Environmental Psychology (2005)
- On the Theories of Secularism and Modernization (Samyak-Vak Special Series, 9) (2007)
References
edit- ^ a b "A.K. Saran". Studies in Comparative Religion. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- ^ "Contextualization of Indian Sociology". yourarticlelibrary.com. 11 April 2014.
- ^ Lardinois, Roland; Scholars and Prophets: Sociology of India from France in the 19th-20th Centuries (Social Science Press, 2013) p. 345
- ^ "The Milwaukee Journal - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ "Archived copy". aksaran.co.in. Archived from the original on 1 June 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
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