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राजा का डर – पास्कल

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महान फ्रांसीसी दार्शनिक और गणितज्ञ ब्लेज़ पास्कल की पुस्तक पौंसे (Pensees) के एक अनुच्छेद का अनुवाद राजाओं को […]

Pratyush Chandra December 31, 2020 Hindi, philosophy, Politics, Theory

Some provisional notes on the materialism of thought, and modernism as “an aesthetics of necessary failure”


The fundamental question, insofar as modernism is concerned, is what does modernism make its diverse forms say about […]

Pothik Ghosh September 5, 2015 Adorno, materialism, modernism, philosophy, politics of literature

Some random thoughts on the rationalism/irrationalism divide


If we historicise religion in terms of its pagan provenance we can clearly see religion as unreflexive atheism. […]

Pothik Ghosh September 4, 2015 irrationalism, philosophy, Rationalism

Some critical observations on the Kantianism of Levi-Strauss’s dialectic and how a ‘formalised in-humanism’ could be extracted from it


“The savage mind totalizes. It claims indeed to go very much further in this direction than Sartre allows […]

Pothik Ghosh September 1, 2015 anthropology, Calude Levi-Strauss, Kant, philosophy

Marx: An Epicurean in Hegelian disguise?


“…the principle of Epicurean philosophy is not the gastrology of Archestratus as Chrysippus believes, but the absoluteness and […]

Pothik Ghosh August 27, 2015 Marxism, philosophy

Nietzsche’s Hellenism: A case of heroic failure


Is it any longer historically possible to retrieve the non-moral ethics of Classical Hellenic antiquity? For, is the […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 ethics, Karl Loewith, Nietzsche, paganism, philosophy

An observation on why Spinoza’s conception of the ethical is materialist


“We see that this natural Divine law does not demand the performance of ceremonies—that is, actions in themselves […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 ideology, Kant, Marx, materialism, philosophy, Spinoza

Spinoza as a precursor of the materialist dialectic


PROPOSITION XXVI. The human mind perceives no external body as actually existing unless through the ideas of the […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 materialist dialectic, philosophy, Spinoza

What is “true metaphysics” and why materialists should embrace it?


Whether one aspires to be a militant of revolutionary action or strives to be an artist committed to […]

Pothik Ghosh August 24, 2015 literary thinking, philosophy

Some random and provisional thoughts on Marxian conceptions of production


Production as in capitalist production is, pace Marx, always immaterial. That value, as the realisation of production, is, […]

Pothik Ghosh August 22, 2015 philosophy, Pierre Macherey, political economy, Politics, Spinoza

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