Jagannath Basu
Biographic Data
| ID | 7500428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jagannath Basu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jagannath |
| FAMILY NAME | Basu |
| SIGNATURE | BASU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baruch College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0306-7238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Idea of Visva-Bharati
The idea with which Rabindranath Tagore established Visva-Bharati is different from that of the grounding of Immanuel Kant's “university with condition” or that of Jacques Derrida's “university without condition.” The thinking that finally materialized into Visva-Bharati, or rather the “fore-thinking,” is an uncanny complex of aesthetics, politics, topolitics, pedagogy, and Tagorean philosophy of the “home” and the “world.” There is neither the “…
‘Moving back and forth of the I’
This article examines how in The Unnamable the unnamed narrator is caught up in a busy traffic of assemblage(s), ‘moving back and forth of the I’. Beckett places the narrator in a no-place (para-site), metaphorically both as the host and the (un)invited guest – the ‘no-mad’ who (dis)owns the system. The narrator acts , and is simultaneously acted upon. Sometimes it is the (un)invited guest (the outsider), and sometimes the host (the insider). The…
Hasya
Amidst a whole range of criticism and derision that laughter has received down the ages, the question still lingers: why “One daren’t even laugh any more”? The comic, according to Aristotle, is associated with the ridiculous or the ugly. It constitutes a deformity or an error and leans towards something which is mean. The comedy, on the other hand, is a form of low art consisting of what is base or inferior. This view of the comic and comedy has …
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Hasya
Amidst a whole range of criticism and derision that laughter has received down the ages, the question still lingers: why “One daren’t even laugh any more”? The comic, according to Aristotle, is associated with the ridiculous or the ugly. It constitutes a deformity or an error and leans towards something which is mean. The comedy, on the other hand, is a form of low art consisting of what is base or inferior. This view of the comic and comedy has …
‘Moving back and forth of the I’
This article examines how in The Unnamable the unnamed narrator is caught up in a busy traffic of assemblage(s), ‘moving back and forth of the I’. Beckett places the narrator in a no-place (para-site), metaphorically both as the host and the (un)invited guest – the ‘no-mad’ who (dis)owns the system. The narrator acts , and is simultaneously acted upon. Sometimes it is the (un)invited guest (the outsider), and sometimes the host (the insider). The…
The Idea of Visva-Bharati
The idea with which Rabindranath Tagore established Visva-Bharati is different from that of the grounding of Immanuel Kant's “university with condition” or that of Jacques Derrida's “university without condition.” The thinking that finally materialized into Visva-Bharati, or rather the “fore-thinking,” is an uncanny complex of aesthetics, politics, topolitics, pedagogy, and Tagorean philosophy of the “home” and the “world.” There is neither the “…
Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Amusement (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Assemblage (archaeology) (1 work) · Comedy (1 work)