How the sun-word rises: cultural synthesis and discursive persistence in the Aurobindo movement of India

Lorenzo, David Joseph (1993) How the sun-word rises: cultural synthesis and discursive persistence in the Aurobindo movement of India. Doctoral thesis, Yale University.

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Abstract

Excerpt from the Abstract: This dissertation examines the Indian social movement founded by Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) as a discourse community. Its purpose is to reveal and explain the problems discourse communities pose to the project of building consensus around a textual agreement that distributes wealth, power and rights. I approach this task by posing and answering two sets of questions: (1) how do discourse communities persist through time despite changing contexts and differences of interest, splitting rather than dissolving, and how do people use discourse as political culture (2) what are the empirical implications of the rise and persistence of discourse communities for normative theories claiming to show the way to lasting textual agreement?

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Subjects:	Collective Organisation > Collective Organisation (General) Conflict and Human Unity > Conflict and Human Unity (General) Spirituality > Spirituality (General)
Depositing User:	Admin User
Date Deposited:	31 Oct 2020 06:24
Last Modified:	31 Oct 2020 06:24
URI:	http://aurorepo.in/id/eprint/98

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