Books by Saitya Brata Das
Aakar Books , 2024
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Wipf and Stock , 2023
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Wipf and Stock, 2023
This work has taken up rigorous readings of Meister Eckhart, F.W.J. von Schelling and Søren Kierk... more This work has taken up rigorous readings of Meister Eckhart, F.W.J. von Schelling and Søren Kierkegaard and formulated its task as an unconditional affirmation of life. I have thereby attempted to make manifest the idea that in today’s neo-liberal-secular world of narcissistic mass-consumption such an affirmation of life – released from the grasp of sovereign power – is the highest ethico-religious task of our time. I have taken here the task to show that it is Eckhart at the epochal closure of medieval world, and Schelling and Kierkegaard from the heart of the epochal condition of modernity, have exposed open a dimension of infinitude and manifestative that can truly be inspiring for us: that is, in the abandonment of all worldly attributes lies there an exposure to the highest gift of beatitude, an opening to the infinitude that sanctifies our worldly existence, as gift from an origin without origin and without foundation, as gift that does not have to be anchored in the nomothetic operation of worldly hegemonies.
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Aakar Books, 2021
"Semiotics" and "Dialectics'': these are the two poles that inform and interpenetrate each other... more "Semiotics" and "Dialectics'': these are the two poles that inform and interpenetrate each other in Harjeet Singh Gill's philosophy. "Two poles": this is not to be understood as two self-subsistent entities-nominative beingsthat are merely opposed in a formal manner of being. Rather, as events of thought, they contaminate each other and purify each other in such a manner that gives to each one its nourishment and fecundity. It is thus possible to say that Harjeet Singh Gill's philosophy is a semiotic dialectics, or it is a dialectical semiotics, concentrated on the immense question of existence. Here existence is understood to be nothing other than the dialectical informing of "being" and "nothing". Each one informs the other of its own arrival; and the other is formed by this coming in of its other. This volume brings together essays written in honour of Harjeet Singh Gill by scholars whose works are deeply influenced by his thought, his life and his vision. Most of the contributors are his former students who are deeply familiar with his work and his fascinating personality. And they have spent many evenings with him, drinking the spiritual wine of the soul, feeling themselves enriched and refreshed.
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Routledge & Aakar Books, 2021
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Reconstructs a negative political eschatology through a thinking of exception without sovereignty... more Reconstructs a negative political eschatology through a thinking of exception without sovereignty Saitya Brata Das argues that in Kierkegaard's work we find a radical eschatological critique of the liberal-humanist pathos of modernity that seeks to legitimise the sovereign power of the state by an appeal to a divine or theological foundation. Relating Kierkegaard's notion of 'Christianity without Christendom' to the Schellingian eschatological critique of sovereignty, he shows how Schelling's insistence on the eschatological difference between religion and politics is transformed and further intensified in Kierkegaard's critique of historical Reason. Das argues that such an exception without sovereignty is the crucial task of our age.
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Springer, 2020
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Springer , 2020
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Today our existence is shipwrecked more than ever before. All the values that hitherto governed o... more 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, our existence is thrown on the desert of exodus. Today the philosopher no longer dares to provide maxims – pure forms of universality – that can be filled up specific acts, or from which specific acts can be deduced. This can either be an occasion of despair or joy; this can also be an occasion to seize the lightning flash of beatitude liberated from constraints of the law. Having to undergo a shipwrecked life and surviving it can truly be an-archic life, life given to the perils of the sea and to its demonic weather, without certitude. We don't have to think this peril of temporality as a dialectical passage that continuously gives us back the identical and the necessary. What we need to think is the radical contingency of the event that gives us, without necessity, the possibility and actuality of the wholly otherwise. This book is a collaboration of a writer with an artist. Together they reflect, and yet each on his and her own manner – her images and his aphorisms-of what welcomes the lightning flashes of beatitude to a shipwrecked life, and what redeems it, without submitting the idea of redemption to the necessary logic of a determinate law.
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Saitya Brata Das rigorously examines the theologico-political works of F. W. J. von Schelling and... more Saitya Brata Das rigorously examines the theologico-political works of F. W. J. von Schelling and sets his thought against his contemporary, G. W. F. Hegel. He argues that Schelling inaugurates a new thinking outside of Occidental metaphysics, by a paradoxical manner of exit, which prepares for the post-metaphysical philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig and Jacques Derrida. This groundbreaking work contests the universal, homogenizing world politics of modernity through its rereading of Schelling's later work and its rethinking of religious eschatology. Intervening in contemporary debates concerning the post-secular, the return of religion, and political theology, Das shows that religion, in an essential sense, can open up infinitude from the heart of finitude to an irreducible outside of the profane order of worldly hegemonies. Religion here assumes a negative political theology of exception without sovereign power. Schelling's late political theology − far from being a conservative relic of the 19th century, as critics have sometimes suggested − opens up avenues for thinking our common being-together and for forming a political theology worthy of the new millennium.
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Routledge , 2022
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How do we make sense of existence in a
world that is constantly threatened by the
destruction of ... more How do we make sense of existence in a
world that is constantly threatened by the
destruction of ‘sense’? Exploring answers to
this complex problem from multidisciplinary
perspectives, this volume maintains that the
question concerning the sense of existence
and its destruction is essentially tied up
with the question of violence: violence as
a radical destruction of sense for and of
existence.
The contributors to this volume look
into the ways in which violence derives
legitimacy in the world, primarily through
language and religion. Each essay negotiates
with the politics of this legitimacy in a
highly individual and irreducibly singular
way. Going beyond the familiar model of
questioning, the contributors argue that
the place of violence in our contemporary
historical condition has accelerated to an
ever immeasurable state, and demands
urgent responses from intellectuals and
activists alike.
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To come, to come into existence that will never come to pass: it is this coming, this incalculabl... more To come, to come into existence that will never come to pass: it is this coming, this incalculable future which is inextricably connected to our mortality that is the concern in this work. What is renewed here is the thought of a pure future beyond all that is given and outside of any immanence of self-presence; it is the thought of a promise of time that opens us, on the basis of an irreducible mortality, to the advent of redemptive, messianic future which is incalculable. Along the lines of Heidegger’s notion of ‘Phenomenology of the Inapparent’ as a point of departure, and taking inspiration from thinkers like Schelling, Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin, this work attempts to work towards a phenomenology of promise that—no longer founding upon eidetic consciousness—takes its bearing from our exposure to the excess of an immemorial promise and its unforeseen fulfilment that arrives from an eternal remnant of time beyond all ‘end’ and all ‘completion’. In this manner, this work argues that the highest ethico-political task of our time is to keep our human condition open for the immemorial promise and redemptive, messianic fulfilment beyond closures of all sorts and to welcome what is always to come without reducing it to various immanent politics of self-consumption. This demands the work of deconstruction of the metaphysical foundation of a historical reason in order to open it up to the messianic affirmation of the event of future. This work contributes in a significant and original manner to the growing and upcoming inter-disciplinary studies that combine philosophical thinking from a certain deconstructive-phenomenological perspective with theological-political studies, added to insights drawn from the place of language from contemporary philosophers like Jean Luc Nancy, Phillippe Lacoue Labarthe and Jean Louis Chrétien.
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Edinburgh University Press eBooks, Apr 14, 2020
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Kritike, Mar 3, 2010
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Springer eBooks, 2020
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Books by Saitya Brata Das
world that is constantly threatened by the
destruction of ‘sense’? Exploring answers to
this complex problem from multidisciplinary
perspectives, this volume maintains that the
question concerning the sense of existence
and its destruction is essentially tied up
with the question of violence: violence as
a radical destruction of sense for and of
existence.
The contributors to this volume look
into the ways in which violence derives
legitimacy in the world, primarily through
language and religion. Each essay negotiates
with the politics of this legitimacy in a
highly individual and irreducibly singular
way. Going beyond the familiar model of
questioning, the contributors argue that
the place of violence in our contemporary
historical condition has accelerated to an
ever immeasurable state, and demands
urgent responses from intellectuals and
activists alike.
Papers by Saitya Brata Das
world that is constantly threatened by the
destruction of ‘sense’? Exploring answers to
this complex problem from multidisciplinary
perspectives, this volume maintains that the
question concerning the sense of existence
and its destruction is essentially tied up
with the question of violence: violence as
a radical destruction of sense for and of
existence.
The contributors to this volume look
into the ways in which violence derives
legitimacy in the world, primarily through
language and religion. Each essay negotiates
with the politics of this legitimacy in a
highly individual and irreducibly singular
way. Going beyond the familiar model of
questioning, the contributors argue that
the place of violence in our contemporary
historical condition has accelerated to an
ever immeasurable state, and demands
urgent responses from intellectuals and
activists alike.
The proposed conference hopes to address and re-address these fundamental questions of our times by taking up the problematic of language in ways that go along with and at the same time also go beyond formalistic analysis of the properties of language. The conference is organized in memory of - and in honor of – Franson Manjali, the former professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. One of the most important thinkers of our contemporary times in our context, Professor Manjali’s tireless investigations into the problematic of language have opened up some of the deepest questions of our time, questions that cannot be posed within any formalistic analysis of language.
The conference hopes to bring together philosophers, social scientists, literary critics and poets in a truly inter-disciplinary manner and the organizers hope to bring out an edited volume out of the conference proceedings.