Spivak: Making of the Subaltern
Visual by Karen Coelho Article by Anand Maurya Subaltern Studies is a field of academic enquiry associated with Postcolonial studies....
top of page
Search
Vandita Gupta
May 30, 20224 min read
Audre Lorde: The Warrior Poet
Visual by Akruthi Akula Audre Lorde was an American writer, poet and civil rights activist. As a poet, she masterfully used emotion and...
Priyanjali Narayan
Feb 1, 20224 min read
Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule (1831-97)
Bride: Even though you give respect daily, and your conduct is satisfactory. All us women are exploited, how will you take me? We (now)...
Kritika Sisodia
Dec 9, 20214 min read
Hegel’s Absolute Idealism
Visual by Anjali Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s philosophy privileges Absolute idealism attained by the “world spirit” or Weltgeist...
Vandita Gupta
Dec 5, 20214 min read
Immanuel Kant’s Categories of Understanding
Visual by Karen Coelho Immanuel Kant (1724 –1804) was a German philosopher and a key figure of the Enlightenment. Kant is regarded as one...
Eshaa Wahie
Dec 3, 20213 min read
Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger)
Visual by Anjali Mostly associated with 19th and 20th-century European Philosophers, Existentialism is a philosophical movement that...
Kavya Singh
Nov 30, 20214 min read
Cartesian Certainty and Modernity’s Anxieties
Visual By Shivani Krishnakumar Introduction Descartes’ philosophical thought holds an immanent likeness to the geometric proofs that...
Kritika Sisodia
Oct 16, 20216 min read
Rousseau on Democracy
Visual by Anjali for The Philosophy Project A discourse on the evolution of democracy without the theory of ‘Social Contract’ is hard to...
Kavya Singh
Oct 16, 20215 min read
John Dewey: On Democracy As The Ethical Ideal
Visual by Anjali for The Philosophy Project INTRODUCTION At a very fundamental level, states assert moral authority over their citizens:...
Deepshikha Sharma
Sep 10, 20213 min read
Existentialism 101
Visual by Karen Wilfred Coelho Influential beyond Philosophy classes or literary texts, Existentialism and its themes percolate into...
Urna Chakrabarty
Aug 2, 20215 min read
REVIEW: Miranda Fricker’s “Why Female Intuition?”
Visual by Shreya Sharma In “Why Female Intuition?” (1995), feminist epistemologist Miranda Fricker attacks the rationalist dualism...
Katyayani Singh
Aug 2, 20214 min read
What do we think when we think of feeling?
Visual by Shreya Sharma What does it mean to feel an emotion? The James-Lange theory, one of the earliest theories of emotion, provides...
Soumya Sharma
Mar 25, 20214 min read
The Violence of the American Gaze
Digital Collage by Shreya Sharma To attempt to define the American Gaze in its entirety is to provide a full history of American...
Urna Chakrabarty
Mar 25, 20213 min read
Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil
Digital Collage by Shreya Sharma One of the most important interventions in the field of existentialist ethics has been Hannah Arendt’s...
Katyayani Singh
Mar 25, 20213 min read
Capturing Violence: What is it to photograph conflict?
Digital Collage by Shreya Sharma The image of Mohammad Zubair beaten by a group of men chanting pro-Hindu slogans during the Delhi Riots...
Deepshikha Sharma
Mar 25, 20213 min read
War and Dehumanisation
The state of war, at face value, is a traumatic and violent affair. Despite altered moral, political, and legal contexts it occurs in,...
Naina Bhargava
Mar 25, 20213 min read
Machiavelli and his relation to war and violence
Digital Collage by Shreya Sharma Machiavelli believes that the ends still justify the means, no matter how inhuman, calculating, or...
Naina Bhargava
Oct 15, 20204 min read
Feminist Jurisprudence
Feminist Jurisprudence- the doctrine of law based on the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes- aims to evaluate law by...
The Philosophy Project
Sep 30, 20205 min read
No Mr. Tharoor, I don't want to enter your kitchen
This article has been written by Tejaswini Tabhane and was originally published on Round table India. The author has given permission to...
Naina Bhargava
Sep 6, 20201 min read
Only Human
Do you ever think about it? About all the times there was a way in, just not a way out When iffy emotions followed drunken road maps When...
bottom of page