Tag: the human mind

DU Cancels Delhi School of Economics Seminar Without Formal Reason, Convenor Resigns

NB: No wonder lacs of Indian students do their best to go abroad for higher studies. This government wishes to abolish the thought process completely. This is not national rejuvenation but a national disaster. DS ‘Since I can no longer guarantee the intellectual integrity of the research colloquium and that it will not be cancelled… Read More DU Cancels Delhi School of Economics Seminar Without Formal Reason, Convenor Resigns

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Stopping Francesca Orsini From Entering India is an Insult to the Very Concept and Culture of Knowledge

NB: Vishwaguru’s India: Thou shalt not think without prior clearance from the Headquarters of Truth, located in Nagpur. DS What happened to Orsini may appear, on the surface, to be an ordinary incident, but the signs it carries are deeply frightening. Yogesh Pratap Shekhar The morning after the festival of lights, Diwali, came news of… Read More Stopping Francesca Orsini From Entering India is an Insult to the Very Concept and Culture of Knowledge

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Can the Humanities Be Saved?

How are professors hired or fired? It’s based on their knowledge productivity—this is how the idea of the “knowledge worker” and “knowledge economy” emerges. This is the thing that really interests me as a philosopher: that the gold standard, the epistemic norm is expertise; it’s no longer wisdom or something broader that everyone is thought… Read More Can the Humanities Be Saved?

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In the Rush to Move On, Who Will Make Israel Face Its Moral Failures?

Israeli society is prepared to process the failures of Oct. 7 in technical terms – military intel, army, logistics – but refuses to confront its own moral blindness. This is where the ‘other Israel’ must step in Eran Rolnik “The other Germany” is a phrase that entered public discourse in Israel in the early 1950s,… Read More In the Rush to Move On, Who Will Make Israel Face Its Moral Failures?

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Jonathan Lear, Philosopher Who Embraced Freud, Dies at 76

Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst. By Michael S. Rosenwald Jonathan Lear, an idiosyncratic and intellectually playful philosopher who melded the ideas of ancient Greek thinkers with Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory to explore the meaning… Read More Jonathan Lear, Philosopher Who Embraced Freud, Dies at 76

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