The Humanization of Transcendence and Ricœur’s Second Copernican Turn in R. Sundara Rajan’s Philosophy

professor at the University of Poona (today Savitri Phule Pune University), stands out as an exception.His profound engagement with French and German phenomenology, hermeneutics, and poststructuralism does not align with the mainstream Indian academic trend influenced by British and American philosophies, nor with the trend of reinterpretation and revitalisation of classical Indian philosophy.Even J. N. Mohanty, arguably one of the foremost and rare experts in German phenomenology, could not refrain from applying the latter to classical Indian philosophy. 1 Barring an article offering a creative interpretation of the concept of pururtha (1979), Rajan chose to contemplate the world around him through the lens of continental thought.In doing so, he significantly contributed to the reception in India of otherwise marginally discussed authors in philosophy departments, introducing the work of Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Roland Barthes, Merleau-Ponty, Paul Ricoeur, Ferdinand de Saussure, and Emile Benveniste, besides his work on the well-received Kant 2 and Husserl.What position should then