By Marcus Bussey Simple ideas are often the most powerful. This is certainly the case with Neohumanism. Rooted in the ancient yogic perception that all existence is bound together, that we are all interconnected, Neohumanism transcends a limited and deeply wounded humanism with an holistic reconceptualisation of what it is to be human. Neohumanism is…
By Professor Aditya Mohanty The globe is engulfed in an unprecedented crisis. Scientific and technological advancements have turned the planet into a global village, as it were. Natural barriers posed by mountains, oceans, deserts and intractable terrains have thinned into insignificance. Limitations of space and time have been greatly overcome. People have access to the…
By Dr. Marcus Bussey Abstract: Modernity is fatally wounded. Neohumanism is the socio-spiritual response to the fatal logic of modernity which privileges growth and the human species over the broad kinship networks of the planet. Sarkar’s articulation of Neohumanism offers a subtle and powerful spiritual alternative logic to counteract the materialist worldview of the present….
Neohumanism is a philosophy developed by the eminent Indian thinker Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar that promotes both a reformulation and a revision of classical humanism, and that can thus be characterized as a way of thinking and acting which is at the same time transmodern, for reinforcing the foundations of modernity from a position of alterity, and decolonial, for deconstructing the bases of coloniality from a condition of subalternity. With its visionary and even revolutionary discourse, neohumanism thereby represents another form of knowledge, an “other” thinking, the renewed expression of the ancient tantric epistemology – or science of yoga – from which it was conceived and elaborated as a primarily spiritual and profoundly mystical philosophy.
