Saitya Brata Das

Saitya Brata Das
Saitya Brata Das teaches at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is associated with the UFR Philosophie, Université de Strasbourg, France, and with Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, where he was Post Doctorate fellow during 2006-2007. His first book-length study called The Promise of Time: Towards a Phenomenology of Promise was published by Indian Institute of Advanced Study.
- Politics and ReligionINR 495
The "crisis" of liberal democracies in today's world demands from us re-investigation of the notion of the "political". Since the dominant concept of the "political" that is associated with the lib...
- Abjection and AbandonmentINR 550
Since the inception of philosophy, the question of melancholy has been intimately connected with creativity. Thus, Aristotle could say that creative people – poets and philosophers – are melanc...
- Infinite ContestationINR 395
Thinking is not a detached, objective reflection about the world and existence; it also seeks to intervene in the world and transfigure existence. For a mere description of reality as it exists, a...
- What is Thinking?INR 450WHAT IS THINKING? The philosophical essays of this collection argue, each time from a singular perspective, that the task of thinking is to release the element of the undconditional from various closu...
- THE EXODUS OF BEINGINR 495
Today our existence is shipwrecked more than ever before. All the values that hitherto governed our life have now lost their sense and ground. Bereft of any dwelling,...

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