The human person and nature in classical and modern India, Supplemento n° 2 alla Rivista degli Studi Orientali, Nuova Serie, Volume LXXXVIII

The publication focuses on two research areas. Level A) exploring in various directions the philosophical, aesthetic and religious thought of traditional India, also in its sociological and anthropological aspects; and level B) focusing the theme of nature in the historical and political-sociological dimensions of modern and contemporary India. Within this exploration, the research areas necessarily include even very distant aspects, temporally and culturally distinct, but also full of cross references. The presence of level B besides level A testifies to the ideal continuity of classical and contemporary India. Level B treats the historical repercussions of the themes dealt with in level A, the complex relationship among nature, dominant cultures and values expressed by tribal and ethnic communities, in medieval and modern texts, in contemporary jurisprudence, and their impact on the alterations in social, economic and political structures since the pre-colonial period.