A. K. Saran

Awadh Kishore Saran (1922 – 2003), popularly known as A. K. Saran, was an Indian scholar, editor, and writer who was one of the most influential voices on traditionalist thoughts in the Hindu world.^[1][2]

Career

Saran's works frequently featured traditionalists and perennialist philosophers such as Frithjof Schuon and, in particular, Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, whom Saran first encountered when he was ten years old.^[1] He served as a professor of sociology at the University of Lucknow in Lucknow, India^[3] and held the Gamaliel chair in peace and justice at the Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.^[4]

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)

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