Gaurav Majumdar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaurav Majumdar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaurav |
| FAMILY NAME | Majumdar |
| SIGNATURE | MAJUMDAR G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Jolt of the Grotesque
The Jolt of the Grotesque: Aesthetics as Ethics in The Satanic Verses Gaurav Majumdar (bio) Now I challenge anyone to explain the diabolic and diverting farrago of Brueghel the Droll otherwise than by a kind of special, Satanic grace. For the words “special grace” substitute, if you wish, the words “madness” or “hallucination;” but the mystery will remain almost as dark. Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life Amplifying a tendency in Salm…
I Can't See
Carl Schmitt's famous formulation,"sovereign is he who declares the [state of] exception," accompanies Schmitt's view that sovereignty is not only the law-making force, but also the authority that defines the law and the extent of the law (Schmitt 1998, 5). For Schmitt, sovereignty determines the situations in which the law is inapplicable, or to be held in abeyance. Schmitt's term for these situations—such as possible circumstances in a revoluti…
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I Can't See
Carl Schmitt's famous formulation,"sovereign is he who declares the [state of] exception," accompanies Schmitt's view that sovereignty is not only the law-making force, but also the authority that defines the law and the extent of the law (Schmitt 1998, 5). For Schmitt, sovereignty determines the situations in which the law is inapplicable, or to be held in abeyance. Schmitt's term for these situations—such as possible circumstances in a revoluti…
The Jolt of the Grotesque
The Jolt of the Grotesque: Aesthetics as Ethics in The Satanic Verses Gaurav Majumdar (bio) Now I challenge anyone to explain the diabolic and diverting farrago of Brueghel the Droll otherwise than by a kind of special, Satanic grace. For the words “special grace” substitute, if you wish, the words “madness” or “hallucination;” but the mystery will remain almost as dark. Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life Amplifying a tendency in Salm…
Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Environmental ethics (1 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (1 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (1 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (1 works) · Law (1 works) · Literature, Magical Realism, García Márquez (1 works)