Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Identities, Social Creativity, Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations [Hardcover]

The book discusses how we can cross-fertilize relationship between roots and routes with and beyond the logic of closure, monological assertions and violence. The book draws upon multiple philosophical, historical, religious and spiritual traditions of the world to rethink our conceptions and productions of identity as well as our conventional understanding of roots and routes. The book particularly explores the vision and practice of creativity, socio-cultural regeneration and planetary realizations to cultivate new pathways of identity realization and new relationship between identities and differences in our fragile world today. Trans-disciplinary in engagement and trans-civilizational in its dialogical pathway, the book is a unique contribution to our contemporary scholarship about ethnicity, identity, social creativity, cultural regeneration and planetary realizations.

Part One: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Self, Social Creativity and Reconstitution of Identities.- Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Ethnicity, Socio-Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations.- Earth and World: Roots and Routes.- First and Second Nature.- Cosmopoesis: Navigating the Strangeness of Planetary Realizations.- Understanding Roots and Routes from a Post-Kantian Tradition of Critique.- Transversal Communication and Boundaries of Identification.- Deconstructing and Reconstructing Identity: A Transformational Transcontinental Journey.- There is a Thread That You Follow: Identity, Journey and Destiny.- Part Two: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: New Possibilities with Philosophy, History, Anthropology and Literature.- Reconciling the Self with the Other: An Existentialist Perspective On the Management of Ethnic Confll£B