[Reader-list] Invitation to a Discussion on Philosophical Romanticism at CSDS

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
invites you to a discussion





*Philosophical Romanticism *

between* Nikolas Kompridis *and* Akeel Bilgrami *

Moderated by *Rajeev Bhargava *





Monday, 6 February 2017, 4.30 pm
                     *RSVP *

CSDS Seminar
Room,
               Tel:
011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054                                                                    Fax:
011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 4 pm
                                email: jaya at csds.in





Romanticism has been a conceptually very capacious movement over the
centuries, originating in Europe in the realm of poetry, philosophy, art
and music and finding echoes in many other parts of the world ever since -
but, equally, tapping elements from other distant parts of the world,
hitherto unknown to Europe. Nikolas Kompridis and Akeel Bilgrami will
explore to what extent there might be *political possibilities* in this
generous  conceptual  repertoire of Romanticism and to what extent these
amount to an alliance between perspectives of the South and dissenting
voices in the West seeking a critique and transformation of the political
Enlightenment in a more radical direction.



*Nikolas Kompridis* is Research Professor in Philosophy and Political
Thought, and the Director of the Institute for Social Justice at the
Australian Catholic University. He is the author of *Critique and
Disclosure: Critical Theory Between Past and Future*, *The Aesthetic Turn
in Political Thought*, and *Philosophical Romanticism*, as well as many
papers on various topics in philosophy and political theory.



*Akeel Bilgrami* is the Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy at
Columbia University, where he is also a professor on the committee on
global thought. His long-term work is on the relations between agency,
value, and practical reason. He is the author of *Belief and Meaning*
 (1992), *Self-Knowledge and Resentment *(2006), and *Secularism, Identity,
and Enchantment *(2014). He is due to publish two short books in the near
future: *What Is a Muslim*? and *Gandhi’s Integrity*.



*Rajeev Bhargava *is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies.


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Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
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