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Philosophy - Discover. Understand. Transform.
Ecophenomenology and the Environmental Crisis in the Sundarbans: Towards a Community-Based Ethic By Kalpita Bhar Paul This book offers a philosophical analysis of the environmental crisis in the Indian Sundarbans, drawing upon phenomenological narratives. It nuances the present understanding of…
“If another mass attachment takes the place of the religious one, as socialism seems currently to be doing, the same intolerance towards outsiders will ensue as in the War of Religion, and if differences of scientific opinion ever managed to…
Marxism has conventionally found itself on the side of ‘materialism’; there has been a hyper-separation (as against the overdetermination) of ‘matter’ and ‘spirit’ in much of Marxian praxis. How does one make sense of this hyper-separation, of the conventional bar,…
What is a ‘virus’? There appears to be global consensus on the virus as an invader of human ‘territory’. But, what if, the virus was a product, an excreta of the cell, of say, a cell in stress, a cell…
What is it that ‘Varanasi’ veils? Depth? Varanasi – the modern cocktail of religion and capital! What is it that the Monotheism of Varanasi veils? Multiplicity? Does it veil the maternal polytheism, the pagan pluralism of faith? Running through the…
What is it to paint the planet? And not pass a dagger through the body of the planet? Not mine – with a long spear. Not make her mine. Mine and ‘make mine’. In a possessive masculine territoriality. Hitherto, we…
Tagore distinguishes between the ‘desire for tea’ which the British have engendered in the Indian and the ‘need for water’ that the Indian pallisomaj has felt all along and has struggled to make (un)available over a thousand years (while Tagore…