A. K. Saran
Indian scholar, writer and sociologist
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| Intro | Indian scholar, writer and sociologist | |
| Places | India | |
| was | Sociologist | |
| Work field | Social science | |
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| Birth | 1922 | |
| Death | 2003 (aged 81 years) |
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Awadh Kishore Saran (known as A. K. Saran) (1922–2003) was an Indian scholar, traditionalist writer and a sociologist. He was a professor of sociology at the University of Lucknow in Lucknow, India and held the Gamaliel chair in peace and justice at the Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Works
- Traditional thought: Toward an axiomatic approach : a book on reminders (Samyag-vak special series) (1996)
- Illuminations: A School for the Regeneration of Man's Experience, Imagination, and Intellectual Integrity : a Proposal (in Two Parts) (1996)
- On the Intellectual Vocation: A Rosary of Edifying Texts with an Analytical-elucidatory Essay (1996)
- Sociology of knowledge and traditional thought (Samyag-vāk special series) (1998)
- Traditional Vision of Man (1998)
- Takamori Lecture: The Crisis of Mankind : an Inquiry Into Originally/novelty, Power/violence (1999)
- The Marxian theory of social change : a logico-philosophical critique (2000)
- Meaning and Truth ; Lectures on the Theory of Language : A Prolegomena to the General Theory of Society and Culture (2003)
- Environmental Psychology (2005)
- On the Theories of Secularism and Modernization (Samyak-Vak Special Series, 9) (2007)