Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction

Redefining the Philosopher in Multi-cultural Contexts

By: Professor Anway Mukhopadhyay (Editor), Professor Saptarshi Mallick (Editor), Professor Debashree Dattaray (Editor)

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Paperback | 19 March 2026

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A cross-cultural study that explores and redefines what philosophy, philosophizing, and philosophers are through the lens of literature.

The academic discipline of philosophy may tell us, too rigidly, what a philosopher is or should be; but fictional narration often upholds the core conundrums of humankind in which philosophy germinates. This collection of essays explores whether a study of âphilosophersâ at a planetary scale, or at least on a broad cross-cultural spectrum, can decouple philosophy from its academic aspect and lend it a more inclusive domain.

Contributors to this volume play with three conceptual poles, making them interact with each other and get modified through this interaction: âfictionâ, ânarrativeâ and âphilosopherâ. How do these three terms get semantically modified and broadened in scope when we speak of the figures of philosophers in imaginative writing? How do these terms assume different connotations in different cultural contexts, interacting with the multiplicity of not just âthoughtâ, but also the media and tools of âthoughtâ? Do we always think only rationally? Or do we also think with and through emotively powerful images, symbols and tropes? In the end, Finding Philosophers in Global Fiction insists on the need to âde-elitizeâ and democratize the concept of a âphilosopherâ by reflecting on the possibility of seeing a philosopher as one who sees things clearly, from any vantage point.

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