Prashant Bagad
IIT Kanpur, Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty Member
- Aesthetics, Marathi literature, Marathi Language, Plato, J. M. Coetzee, Boris Pasternak, and 15 moreGandhian Studies, Indian Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature, Poetics, Indian Poetics, Marathi Literary Criticism, Marathi Fiction, Shakespeare, Phenomenological Aesthetics, Continental Philosophy and Aesthetics, Philosophy, Presocratic Philosophy, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Rabindranath Tagore, and Philosophy of the Emotionsedit
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Books: Naval (novel), Saat Goshtincha Pustak and Vivade Vishade Pramade Pravase (short story collections)
Professor of Philosophy at IIT Kanpur
PhD (University of Southampton)edit
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I propose in this paper an interpretation of Kant's fascinating notion of ''aesthetic ideas''. I contend that aesthetic ideas, in spite of Kant's way of expli-cating them in those terms, are not mirror images, sensible counterparts or... more
I propose in this paper an interpretation of Kant's fascinating notion of ''aesthetic ideas''. I contend that aesthetic ideas, in spite of Kant's way of expli-cating them in those terms, are not mirror images, sensible counterparts or translations of intellectual or rational ideas. Rather, they have independent life. They present what cannot be available by any other means and thereby make a poem (or an artwork in general) a unique, singular, insubstitutable individual. This reading of the notion can shed a different light on Kant's view that a poem should look like nature. If we focus on Kant's description of ''genius'' as a source of aesthetic ideas, this seemingly mysterious concept begins to make a nuanced sense: concepts of genius and aesthetic ideas are what I call ''medium-centric'' notions. To write a poem is to play upon the medium and discover aesthetic ideas; a poet who can achieve this is or has genius.
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Journal of Contemporary Thought, 2014 (Winter), pp. 143-155
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An interpretative essay on the theme of आदर्शाकाश in Bhalchandra Nemade's novel, 'Kosala' ('Cocoon')
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An interpretative essay on the theme of स्थळ/स्थल (lit. place) in Bhalchandra Nemade's novel, 'Kosala' ('Cocoon')