Philosophy

  • Ramkrishna Bhattacharya on György Lukács

    Ramkrishna Bhattacharya György Lukács (13 April 1885 – 4 June 1971) was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician,literary historian, and critic. He was, according to Wikiipedia, one of the founders of Western Marxism, an interpretive tradition that departed from the Marxistideological orthodoxy of the USSR. He developed the theory of reification, and contributed to Marxist theory with developments of Karl Marx’s theory of class consciousness. He was…

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  • Why Study Ancient Philosophy?

    Ramkrishna Bhattacharya “Why do you study ancient philosophy?” I have faced this question so often that it is high time to give a reply in print. The question may be answered rather tartly, following a famous mountaineer: ‘Because it’s there.’ 800×600 Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE ML MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable…

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