Philipp Sperner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4769310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philipp Sperner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philipp |
| FAMILY NAME | Sperner |
| SIGNATURE | SPERNER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7392-603X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought
The ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, was first composed in Sanskrit and then rendered into Indian vernaculars and other Asian and European languages. This book demonstrates how the epic has shaped the birth of modern politics and thought across India, Europe, Japan, China, Thailand, Iran, and the Arab world. It draws on methodologies of global intellectual and religious history. The contributing authors are specialists on various world-regions. …
‘Transpacific Political Theology
Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives, Paradigms, Proposals, edited by Kwok Pui-lan. Baylor University Press, 2024. vii + 315 pp. Pb, $54.99. ISBN: 978-1-4813-2026-9
Ambedkar's Śūnyatā and the Impermanence of the Theologico-Political
This article engages with B. R. Ambedkar as political philosopher and key contributor to debates on global democracy and the genealogy of democratic ideas outside the West. I focus specifically on Ambedkar's use of Buddhist philosophy and the concept of śūnyatā (emptiness/impermanence), which plays a central role in his search for a nontheological democratic politics. In order to explore the implications of such a politics, the article brings Amb…
A Perpetuity of Lesser Emptiness
The article provides an analysis of the spatial configuration of the Hindi novel Naukar kī kamīz by Vinod Kumar Shukla (translated into English as The Servant’s Shirt ). In highlighting the argumentative and structural similarities between the content of the novel and various concepts of social space and literary spatiality developed by Catherine Régulier, Henri Lefebrve, Edward Soja, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others, the article proposes to read the …
Prekäres Potential” Isabell Lorey
Book review on LOREY, Isabell. Die Regierung der Prekaren. Wien/Berlin: Turia + Kant 2012 [ISBN 978-3-85132-669-7
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A Perpetuity of Lesser Emptiness
The article provides an analysis of the spatial configuration of the Hindi novel Naukar kī kamīz by Vinod Kumar Shukla (translated into English as The Servant’s Shirt ). In highlighting the argumentative and structural similarities between the content of the novel and various concepts of social space and literary spatiality developed by Catherine Régulier, Henri Lefebrve, Edward Soja, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others, the article proposes to read the …
Prekäres Potential” Isabell Lorey
Book review on LOREY, Isabell. Die Regierung der Prekaren. Wien/Berlin: Turia + Kant 2012 [ISBN 978-3-85132-669-7
Ambedkar's Śūnyatā and the Impermanence of the Theologico-Political
This article engages with B. R. Ambedkar as political philosopher and key contributor to debates on global democracy and the genealogy of democratic ideas outside the West. I focus specifically on Ambedkar's use of Buddhist philosophy and the concept of śūnyatā (emptiness/impermanence), which plays a central role in his search for a nontheological democratic politics. In order to explore the implications of such a politics, the article brings Amb…
The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought
The ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, was first composed in Sanskrit and then rendered into Indian vernaculars and other Asian and European languages. This book demonstrates how the epic has shaped the birth of modern politics and thought across India, Europe, Japan, China, Thailand, Iran, and the Arab world. It draws on methodologies of global intellectual and religious history. The contributing authors are specialists on various world-regions. …
‘Transpacific Political Theology
Transpacific Political Theology: Perspectives, Paradigms, Proposals, edited by Kwok Pui-lan. Baylor University Press, 2024. vii + 315 pp. Pb, $54.99. ISBN: 978-1-4813-2026-9
Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Emptiness (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)