Philosophy Prof. Ashok Gangadean releases new book

“It is clear that we have entered an unprecedented global age in which our diverse cultures, religions, philosophies, worldviews and perspectives encounter one another in the marketplace of our global village.”  So says Professor and Chair of Philosophy Ashok Gangadean, whose new book Meditations of Global First Philosophy: Quest for the Missing Grammar of Logos, released by SUNY Press in November 2008, taps into a higher dimension of global reason pioneered by the traditions of ancient first philosophy.

Exploring diverse examples of both Eastern and Western wisdom across disciplines, Gangadean’s book explains that when we distance ourselves from our localized worldviews, previously undetected patterns and dynamics make themselves known. One such discovery, says Gangadean, is that an “Infinite Primal Origin, Source, Force” is the power behind our different cultures, religions, philosophies and perspectives. “But the deeper global dimension in which this Infinite Power is adequately approached had not been developed” in the days of first philosophy, he adds, and the “technology of consciousness and grammar of this global origin had not been fully brought forth.” This he defines as the missing grammar of Logos.

Meant as an introduction to global philosophy, Meditations of Global First Philosophy gives readers tools to facilitate what Gangadean calls our “individual and collective crossing into the space of global consciousness, which is the key to the emergence of sustainable global cultures in the new millennium.”