Phenomenology and Consciousness

Phenomenology and Consciousness: Insights from Indian Philosophy brings Western phenomenology into sustained dialogue with the diverse traditions of Indian philosophical thought. Exploring the lived structures of experience, intentionality, perception, embodiment, language and intersubjectivity, this volume shows how Indian systems have long addressed questions central to contemporary consciousness studies.

From the Vedas and Upanishads to Vedanta, Mimamsa, Buddhist Abhidharma and Yogachara, Jain philosophy, Samkhya-Yoga, Kashmir Shaivism, Nyaya and modern Indian thinkers such as Aurobindo, Vivekananda, Iqbal and Krishnamurti, the book traces rich and often underexplored approaches to mind and awareness. Its chapters examine consciousness as witness, cognition, embodied practice, linguistic mediation, empathetic plurality, dynamic self-recognition and transformative insight.

Challenging Eurocentric assumptions and reductionist models of subjectivity, the collection demonstrates how Indian philosophy both anticipates and extends key phenomenological concerns. It offers an inclusive, cross-cultural and praxis-oriented understanding of consciousness that bridges rigorous theoretical analysis with contemplative and liberatory dimensions of experience.

Interdisciplinary in scope and comparative in method, this volume will appeal to scholars and students of Indian philosophy, phenomenology, consciousness studies, cognitive science, comparative philosophy and contemplative studies.