Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York, will be giving a lecture at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities at 4.30 p.m. on Saturday.
The lecture, ‘Mentalities of the Non-West as a source of Swaraj: Lessons from Gandhi’, is part of a three-day conference, ‘Rethinking Swaraj’. The conference is being supported by the Indian Council for Philosophical Research and the Dr. T.M.A. Pai Chair on Dharma.
Dr. Bilgrami seeks to interpret Mahatma Gandhi’s notion of swaraj as a mentality which is not only independent of the mentality of the West but also a critique of it. The conference takes its theme from an influential essay by the Indian philosopher K.C. Bhattacharya titled ‘Swaraj in Ideas’.
The conference aimed at giving an account of what cultural subjugation under colonialism could mean, especially the residues of such subjugation on conceptual thinking today.
It is part of a three-day conference being
held at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy
and Humanities
