Abstrakt
This presentation tries to reconstruct Daya Krishna's use of "knowledge" based on the reading of the four given articles. There is a general difficulty in Daya Krishna's concept of knowledge, namely the fact that knowledge is a central and recurrent concept, from his PhD thesis The Nature of Philosophy to his posthumous work Towards a Theory of Structural and Transcendental Illusions on which DK came coming back to.
Consequently a number of implicit references and diverse connotations retrieved from various fields of research (philosophy, sociology, etc) and traditions (Indian and Western) are combined in a same concept. Moreover the latest period of DK does not break with earlier works and kept his original intuitions, so that the concept seems to accumulate different meanings, references and applications.
For DK's reader knowledge appears therefore as a hybrid concept which simultaneously imply common and interconnected themes and questions, such as knowledge and creativity, or a criticism of the monopoly of epistemological and scientific values for considering knowledge, and a distinctive use of the concept in different contexts (knowledge in economics, in science, objects of knowledge, knowledge as a process, self-consciousness and knowledge, etc.). In this sense, as an attempt to clarify, or as an attempt of engaging into the variety of knowledgeS in knowledge, I find relevant to distinguish and connect different connotations and uses of DK's concept of knowledge.