"Day two began with a paper by Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Aakash Singh Rathore, titled ‘The Absent Centrality of Sympathy to Aristotle’s Ethics: A Reconstruction’. His proposition (and provocation) being the reinstalling of the missing notion of Sungnome — which he understands as practical reasoning, a more intellectual judgement than Sympatheia — dethroning a purely rationalistic understanding of Phronesis by uncovering Sungnome as a necessary factor to it. He argues that Sungnome as cognitive empathy is needed to supplement Phronesis. This is precisely what Eichmann (who presents as completely rational in his adherence to ‘not-illegal’ orders) lacks in Rathore’s reading of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil."
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Papers presented in Conferences/Workshops/Symposia “Hindu Fundamentalism and Indian Political Philosophy” Fundamentalism, Radicalism, Extremism Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary “The New Geometry of Geopolitics Post-Secularism” Vernacularization of the Secular Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK “Deprovincializing Political Theory” Social Cohesion/Conflict in a Post-Secular Era The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel “The Ambiguous Anthropology of Political Liberalism” Politics and Evil Lapland University, Finland “Political Liberalism in a Post-Secular World: On Rawls and Habermas” Cultural Conditions of Secularism University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway “Theoretical Fault lines and Social Flashpoints: Toward a New Political Theory” Beyond the Religious, Beyond the Secular? Political Theology and Embedded Religiosity in European Rationalism University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden “Flatland or Sphereland? The New Geometry of Global Political Theory Post Secularism” Religion and Politics: Inter-contextual Approaches on India and Europe University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium “The Dialectics of Juergen Habermas’ Post-Secular Turn” Religion and Democracy: Challenges & Prospects Lutheran Theological University, Budapest, Hungary “B.R. Ambedkar and the Political Theology of Navayana Buddhism” Political Theology in the 21st Century? Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary “A Political Theory of Svaraj” Rethinking Svaraj in Ideas Manipal University, Manipal “What is Comparative Political Theory?” & “Gandhi and Ambedkar” & “Thin Swaraj” Workshop entitled Political Theory — Western and Indian University of Mumbai, Mumbai “Rethinking the Fundamentalism Project – Hindu Fundamentalism" Rethinking the Fundamentalism Project Oslo University, Norway “The Commitment to Culture: A Postcolonial Account” Marxism and post colonialism: Which counterhegemonic narrative for the postcommunist East? Tranzit.ro, Cluj, Romania “Dalit Swaraj” Dalit Theory and Practice ICPR, Lucknow “A Theory on Ambedkar's Conversion” International Seminar on Contemporary Buddhist Philosophy University of Mumbai “On the IRNRD” State of the Emergency Provisions University of Manchester, UK |
Lectures or Presentations at Conferences/Symposia
"Celebrating Dr Ambedkar" JNU School of Arts & Aesthetics, Delhi "Contemporary Indian Political Philosophy" JNU, Centre for Philosophy, Delhi, India "Freedom of Speech" IIIT, Delhi, India "The Epistemology and Methodology of Global Knowledge" Rutgers University, Newark, USA “The Use and Abuse of Asian Philosophy” Stockton College, New Jersey, USA “The Monstrosity of Buddha? From Zizek to Ambedkar and Back” University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden “Occidentalising Gandhi: On the Use and Abuse of Gandhi’s Life and Work in the Writings of John Rawls Institute of Lifelong Learning & K.M. College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India “Wronging Rights? Re-evaluating Slavoj Zizek’s Critique of Human Rights in the light of Post-colonial Theory” India International Centre, New Delhi, India “The Romance of Global Justice: From John Rawls to Dalit Marxism” Luiss University, Rome, Italy “Kojève’s Slaves & Kurosawa’s Farmers” University of Delhi, New Delhi, India “On Virtue: Word and Deed: From Plato’s Meno to the Bhagavad Gita” Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India “Ambedkar’s Buddhist Marxism and Marxist Buddhism” Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute of Social and Economic Change, University of Bombay, India “Alexandre Kojève’s Marxist Hegel: From Dialectic to Dualism” Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India “Plato’s Dramatic Labyrinth: An Alternative Reading of the Parmenides” University of Delhi, New Delhi, India |