Publications

OTHERS

• Selected Publications

  * "On the Concept of World Philosophy", Philosophy East and West, Forthcoming.

  * "The Unanswerd Question: Some Remarks on Tagore's Late Style" in D. Banerji ed., Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century: Theoretical Renewals (Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures), Springer, 2015, pp.265-275.

  * “Rabindranath Tagore on Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism”. Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. XXVIII, No. 1, pp. 63-81, 2011.

  * “Benjamin in Bengal:  Cosmopolitanism and Historical Primacy” in Sugata Bose and Kris Manjapra (eds.), Cosmopolitan Thought Zones in South Asia (Basinstoke: Macmillan Palgrave, 2010)

  * “Rawlsian Liberalism, Secularism, and the Call for Cosmopolitanism” in Michael Heng Siam-Heng and Ten Chin Liew (eds.), State and Secularism: Perspectives from Asia (Singapore:  World Scientific, 2010)

  * "Tagore's Connception of Cosmopolitanism: A Reconstruction”. The University of Toronto Quarterly. Vol. 77, No.4 . pp. 111- 123, 2009

  * "Indian Philosophy: Some Aspects”, Encyclopaedia of Anthropology, (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2006)

  * "Between Apathy and Hegemony”: An Essay on Modern Indian Thought”. In Enworlded Subectivity. Vol/Part4. New Delhi: Center for Studies in Civilizations. General editor, D.P. Chattopadhaya. (2006)

  * "The Possibility of Translation” Theory, Culture and Society, 23, no. 2-3 (2006).

   * “Globalization and Culture: On the Scope and Limits Of Competition”   in Konstantine Boudouris & Kostas Kalimtzis, eds., Philosophy, Competition and the Good Life, Volume I (Athens: Ionia Publications, 2005).

   * “India, Europe, and Modernity” in Arvind Sharma et.al., (eds.), Dharma: The Categorical Imperative (New Delhi: D.K. Printworld, 2005)

   * "Just Words:  Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Translation”, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, ed., Translation, Text, and Theory: The Paradigm of India, (New Delhi:  Sage, 2002)

   * "Death and Pictures in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus” Philosophy in the Contemporary World 1(1994), 34-39

   * "The Echo of Silence: Toward a Reconstruction of Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of History” International Philosophical Quarterly XXXI (1991), 427-434

  * "Husserl’s Conception of Hume’s Problem: Toward a Transcendental Hermeneutic of Hume’s Treatise” Man and World 27(1994), 257-269 (This journal is now known as Continental Philosophy Review).

  Some Recent Invited Talks:

  * “From Bengal: Cosmopolitanism and the Address of Modernity.” September 25, 2009. South Asia Without Borders Seminar. Harvard University.

  * “History, Hermeneutics, and the Paintings of Abanindranath Tagore”.  November 6, 2009.  Conference title:  “The Idea of Asia in Tagore and his Times”.  Harvard University.

  * “Postmodernism and the Philosophy of Education”.  October 11, 2009.  Columbia University Teachers College, New York.

  * “The Paintings of Rabindranath Tagore:  Towards an Advaitic Hermeneutic”.  August 22-25. 2010.  Conference Title: Understanding Tagore: New Perspectives and Research.  University of Beijing.

  * “Bengal and Cosmopolitanism: On the Question of Identity”. August 22, 2010.  Conference Title:  Being Bengali. University of Western Sydney. Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

  * “Space and the Possibility of Cosmopolitan History”. December 2-4, 2010. Conference Title: Remapping South Asia: Space, Time, Method. Tufts University. Convenors: Tufts and Harvard Universities

  * “On Unity” Conference Title: Tagore's Universalism. 7-8 May, 2011.  New Delhi, Vigyan Bhavan.  Part of the Govt. of India’s celebration of Tagore’s sesquicentennial birth anniversary.

  * “Rabindranath Tagore and the Cosmopolitan Vision”.  14 May 2011.  Penang Story Lecture.  Invited Public Lecture.  Penang, Malaysia.

  * “Cosmopolitanism and Education: On Tagore and Modernity.” June 16-17, 2011. Conference Title: Tagore’s Vision for Asia: Human Solidarity beyond Nationalism”. Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

  * Keynote Speaker, Contemporary Philosophy in East Asia Conference, Kyoto University, August 2014.

  Translation Work:

  Translations of Tagore (co-author: Prof. Wendy Barker). Subsequently appeared in Rabindranath Tagore: Final Poems (New York: George Braziller, 2001): (selected)

    * International Poetry Review, 2001, Sickbed 23, Recovery 25

             *  * The Kenyon Review & Stand Magazine &The Nobel Museum, 2001, (Commemorative Volume of the Centennial of the Nobel Prizes), Sickbed 5 & 7, Recovery 30, On My Birthday 8, Last Poems 2 & 4

             * Michigan Quarterly Review, 1999, Sickbed 27, Recovery 22 & 31

             * Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing, 1997, Sickbed 17, 26 & 35, Recovery 6, Last Poems 10 & 14

             * Nimrod: International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Recovery 3

             * Partisan Review, Birthday 28