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    Spivak: Making of the Subaltern
    The Philosophy Project
    • 3 days ago
    • 7 min

    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....
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    Audre Lorde: The Warrior Poet
    Vandita Gupta
    • May 30
    • 4 min

    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...
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    Krantijyoti Savitribai Phule (1831-97)
    Priyanjali Narayan
    • Feb 1
    • 4 min

    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)...
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    Hegel’s Absolute Idealism
    Kritika Sisodia
    • Dec 9, 2021
    • 4 min

    Hegel’s Absolute Idealism

    Visual by Anjali Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s philosophy privileges Absolute idealism attained by the “world spirit” or Weltgeist...
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    Immanuel Kant’s Categories of Understanding
    Vandita Gupta
    • Dec 4, 2021
    • 4 min

    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...
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    Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger)
    Eshaa Wahie
    • Dec 3, 2021
    • 3 min

    Existentialism (Kierkegaard, Sartre, Heidegger)

    Visual by Anjali Mostly associated with 19th and 20th-century European Philosophers, Existentialism is a philosophical movement that...
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    Cartesian Certainty and Modernity’s Anxieties
    Kavya Singh
    • Nov 30, 2021
    • 4 min

    Cartesian Certainty and Modernity’s Anxieties

    Visual By Shivani Krishnakumar Introduction Descartes’ philosophical thought holds an immanent likeness to the geometric proofs that...
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    Rousseau on Democracy
    Kritika Sisodia
    • Oct 16, 2021
    • 6 min

    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...
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    John Dewey: On Democracy As The Ethical Ideal
    Kavya Singh
    • Oct 16, 2021
    • 5 min

    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:...
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    Existentialism 101
    Deepshikha Sharma
    • Sep 10, 2021
    • 3 min

    Existentialism 101

    Visual by Karen Wilfred Coelho Influential beyond Philosophy classes or literary texts, Existentialism and its themes percolate into...
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    REVIEW: Miranda Fricker’s “Why Female Intuition?”
    Urna Chakrabarty
    • Aug 2, 2021
    • 5 min

    REVIEW: Miranda Fricker’s “Why Female Intuition?”

    Visual by Shreya Sharma In “Why Female Intuition?” (1995), feminist epistemologist Miranda Fricker attacks the rationalist dualism...
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    What do we think when we think of feeling?
    Katyayani Singh
    • Aug 2, 2021
    • 4 min

    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...
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    The Violence of the American Gaze
    Soumya Sharma
    • Mar 25, 2021
    • 4 min

    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...
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    Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil
    Urna Chakrabarty
    • Mar 25, 2021
    • 3 min

    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...
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    Capturing Violence: What is it to photograph conflict?
    Katyayani Singh
    • Mar 25, 2021
    • 3 min

    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...
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    War and Dehumanisation
    Deepshikha Sharma
    • Mar 25, 2021
    • 3 min

    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,...
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    Machiavelli and his relation to war and violence
    Naina Bhargava
    • Mar 25, 2021
    • 3 min

    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...
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    Feminist Jurisprudence
    Naina Bhargava
    • Oct 15, 2020
    • 4 min

    Feminist Jurisprudence

    Feminist Jurisprudence- the doctrine of law based on the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes- aims to evaluate law by...
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    The Philosophy Project
    • Sep 29, 2020
    • 5 min

    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...
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    Naina Bhargava
    • Sep 6, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
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