[Reader-list] Invitation to a panel discussion on the book ‘Philosoph​y as Saṃvāda and Svarāj’

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and Sage Publications

invite you to a panel discussion on the book



*Philosophy as Saṃvāda and Svarāj:*

*Dialogical Meditations on Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi *

Edited by* Shail Mayaram*



*Speakers:*

Arindam Chakrabarti, Daniel Raveh,

Devasia M. Antony, Rajeev Bhargava & Shail Mayaram



Friday, 14 February 2014, 600 pm

CSDS Seminar Room

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054





*Philosophy as Saṃvāda and Svarāj* discusses Daya Krishna and Ramchandra
Gandhi’s respective intellectual contributions and speculates how one might
take forward the work of the two philosophers who were among the most
brilliant minds of our times. Both Daya Krishna and Ramchandra Gandhi
emphasized  thought and were concerned with how philosophy might seek its
svaraj, free from the orientalist hold of the religious, the colonial
crippling of indigenous languages and institutions and the structures and
categories of un-freedom that continue to haunt inhabitants of the West and
non-West. Samvāda was particularly important to both thinkers
conceptualised it as deep dialogue, taking it way beyond the vāda tradition
of Indian argumentation. The contributors to the volume bring out the
creativity of the two philosophers even as they often spoke from
contrastive positions.



*Arindam Chakrabarti* is Professor at the University of Hawaii

*Daniel Raveh* is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at
Tel Aviv University

*Devasia M. Antony* is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy
at Hindu College, Delhi University

*Rajeev Bhargava* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi

*Shail Mayaram* is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies, Delhi


Praveen Rai
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