Tinai Philosophy

The Indigenous Lifeway for the Anthropocene

By: Nirmal Selvamony

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Hardcover | 10 December 2025 | Edition Number 1

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200 Pages

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This book reconstructs the philosophy of ti?ai (indigenous Tamil lifeway) in pre-state India, the origins of which are traceable to the pre-Holocene epoch. Ti?ai is both the world of this philosophy, a spiritual path as well as the way of living in harmony with other beings and with the world at large.
The book shows how this philosophy was practised in both within the home and in the public forum. It demonstrates how k?tci, the philosophical practice of living out ti?ai, is a kind of action that is at once rational, emotional and volitional and how this praxis is guided by the ultimate value of a?pu or love. This book introduces one of the earliest strands of philosophical discourses and reimagines a new understanding of philosophy itself by exploring the semantic horizons of the term, k??ci ('vision', the Tamil word for philosophy) without falling back on the western idea of the discipline of philosophy and earns its indispensable niche in the field of philosophy itself.
Comprehensive and insightful, this volume will be of interest to scholars of Indian philosophy, philosophies of the world, ancient civilizations, indigenous studies or tribal studies, comparative philosophy, India Studies, South Asian Studies, and the global south.

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