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    Who Am I and Who Are You?: Gadamer on Celan’s Dialogical Poetry
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 10 (1): 33-48. 2023.
    ABSTRACT In this essay, I shall discuss Gadamer’s interpretation of Celan’s dialogical poetry in his essay “Wer bin Ich und wer bist Du?” (“Who am I and Who are You?”). One may argue that this is Gadamer’s articulation of the problem of the self-other relationship. To understand the question of self and other, it is first of all necessary to return to the poetic word from which the question arises. Speaking is, for Gadamer, the most profoundly self-forgetful action, because when one speaks, one …Read more
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    Rawls’ Idea of a Liberal Self: A Communitarian Critique
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 37 (3): 383-402. 2020.
    The paper is an attempt to revisit Rawls’ idea of a self, which elicits the concept of justice in the liberal tradition. Justice, as understood in the social and political context, is the basic feature of a well-ordered and rationally developed society and it is considered to be a virtue of the social institution. The liberal theory believes in the basic principle that right is prior to the good, and what is most fundamental to our personhood are not the ends we choose but our capacity to choose…Read more
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    Self-Other Relationship, History and Interpretation
    Culture and Dialogue 5 (2): 210-222. 2017.
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    Humanistic Philosophy of Tagore
    Kritike 6 (1): 50-66. 2012.