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1Ecstatic Temporality and Transcendence in Section 65 of Chapter III and Section 69 of Chapter IV in Relation to Ontological Movement in Section 74 of Chapter V in Division Two of Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927), Part I (review)Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 11 (1): 49-76. 2024.This first article is part of a two-article series labeled Parts I and II. In Part I, we will attempt a close reading of Division Two of Heidegger’s greatest work, Being and Time (1927). We will execute a granular analysis of a few lines and phrases in section 65 in Chapter III, section 69 in Chapter IV, and sections 72 and 74 in Chapter V; those sections cover ‘primordial ecstatic, finite, unified, authentic temporality’ (Heidegger 1962, 380) and the ‘equiprimordiality of the unity of the ecsta…Read more
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11Magnifying Lacan’s “Mirror Image” (1949) to Develop the Undeveloped Notion of ‘Being-Towards-Birth’ in Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927) (review)Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 10 (2): 239-260. 2023.This essay will attempt a line-by-line reading of Lacan’s famous “The Mirror Image as Formative I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience” (1949) published in the collected volume of essays, Ecrits (1966). The article attempts to show that Lacan’s essay opens a space of primordiality, whereby we can revisit Heidegger’s critique of subjectivity and the Cogito, terms that originate with Descartes and evolves to Kant’s Critiques of dogmatic metaphysics, particularly in Heidegger’s Being a…Read more
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10The Buried Promise of Sections 74 and 75 of Chapter V of Division Two of Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927) in light of New Testament Christianity (review)Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 10 (1): 129-148. 2023.This article will offer a close reading of sections 74 and 75 of “Chapter V: Temporality and Historicality” of Division Two of Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927). Our goal is to expand on a speculative metaphysical reconstruction of Chapter 17 of the Gospel of John, when Jesus is finished speaking to the disciples and is addressing the Father alone. This is right before his Passion, namely the arrest, trial, crucifixion, and ultimate Resurrection. The work is not situated in either abstract syste…Read more
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12Mobilizing Hegel's Master-Slave Analysis in The Phenomenology of Spirit to Illuminate New Possibilities in Ambedkar's Annihilation of CastePhilosophy, Culture, and Traditions 11 209-226. 2015.
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9Derrida’s Jewish QuestionJournal of World Philosophies 7 (1): 1-12. 2022.This paper will pose the question of the future minoritization of the white, gentile, Christian European and EuroAmerican identity, which has dominated world history from colonization through the post-Cold War historical present. The question is not how this is coming to an end in the near future as empirical fact and in what manner, but an attempt to imagine another future, another identity than what has been proscribed in the past. In order to move into this alterity, we will engage in a criti…Read more
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7An Inhuman God for Our Inhuman TimesSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 8 (2): 211-232. 2021.This paper attempts a careful reading of chapter I of Division Two, particularly section 53, on death in Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927). Our aim is to deconstruct some of Heidegger’s assumptions while imagining the margins of his text that could warrant a comparison and contrast with the biblical theological material of the New Testament. In parallel by reading the Synoptic Gospel of Mark on Jesus’s agony in the garden prior to his arrest, trial, death, and resurrection, we can initiate a ser…Read more
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13An Inhuman God for Our Inhuman Times: Death in Heidegger’s Being and Time and Jesus’s Agony in the GardenSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Rajesh Sampath ABSTRACT: This paper attempts a careful reading of chapter I of Division Two, particularly section 53, on death in Heidegger’s Being and Time. Our aim is to deconstruct some of Heidegger’s assumptions while imagining the margins of his text that could warrant a comparison and contrast with the biblical theological material of …
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1The Question as to Why We Have to Live Out the Agony of Our Epoch and its Fundamental Un-AnswerabilitySymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 8 (1): 117-138. 2021.This paper excavates certain impulses that are buried in Pierre Klossowski’s 1968 edition of his original 1947 work, Sade My Neighbor. We argue that the self-suffocating nature of our historical present reveals the problem of an epochal threshold: in which twenty-first century democracy itself is threatened with death and violence in delusional neofascist attempts at national self-preservation. This speaks to a deeper enigma of time, epochal shifts, and the mystery of historical time; but it doe…Read more
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9The Question as to Why We Have to Live Out the Agony of Our Epoch and its Fundamental Un-Answerability: A Reading of the Preface to the 1967 Edition of Klossowski’s’ Original 1947 Sade My Neighbor (review)Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Rajesh Sampath ABSTRACT: This paper excavates certain impulses that are buried in Pierre Klossowski’s 1968 edition of his original 1947 work, Sade My Neighbor. We argue that the self-suffocating nature of our historical present reveals the problem of an epochal threshold: in which twenty-first century democracy itself is threatened with death and violence in delusional …
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The 1924 Lecture “The Concept of Time” as the Step Beyond Being and Time and After DeconstructionIn Lisa Foran & Rozemund Uljée (eds.), Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida: The Question of Difference, Springer Verlag. 2016.
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3The Being of God’s Time: The Problem of Time in Barth’s Church Dogmatics and Heidegger’s Being and TimeIAFOR Journal of Ethics, Religion and Philosophy 3 (1). 2017.This paper aims to compare and contrast Barth and Heidegger on the question of time. Although Barth speaks from the theological standpoint and Heidegger considers theology as a form of an "ontic science" distinct from his fundamental ontology in Being and Time, I pose the following question: To what extent can an appropriation of Barth, ironically, transcend the limits of Heidegger’s Being and Time, which could not offer its missing division III? We hypothesize that this step beyond Being and Ti…Read more
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5“Temporality and Historicality” in Heidegger’s Being and Time as the Clue to the Origin of Christian TheologyIAFOR Journal of Ethics, Religion and Philosophy 2 (1). 2015.I am not concerned with whether Heidegger’s philosophy is a "secularisation" of primitive Christianity buried beneath the excrescence of a dead medieval Scholasticism and the "ontotheological constitution of its metaphysics". Nor I am concerned with seeking out the theological roots of Heidegger’s philosophy even though he and others may claim that his philosophy is rabidly a-theistic. To repeat, this paper is not interested in intellectual history and or a genealogical reconstruction of Heidegg…Read more
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3The Dissolution of the Social Contract in to the Unfathomable Perpetuity of CasteSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 6 (2): 195-217. 2019.This paper examines Ambedkar’s critical view of certain distortions, contradictions, and instabilities in democratic norms, constitutional validity, and citizens’ rights in India’s secular, constitutional, legal, pluralistic democracy. Through a strident deconstruction utilizing Hegelian resources, the paper exposes the contortions and contradictions underpinning Hindu metaphysics in some of its most abstract texts, namely the ancient Upanishads. Through this deconstructive lens we unpack variou…Read more
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450Reading “On Time and Being” (1962) to Construct the ‘Missing’ Division III of Being and Time – or “time and Being” – (1927) (review)Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 5 (1): 77-89. 2018.This paper will articulate the conditions of thinking about the transition of Division II in Heidegger’s Being and Time in order to imagine the architecture of the missing Division III, which never appeared in the published Part I of Being and Time (1927). The paper explores questions of temporality, historical temporality, and Heidegger’s confrontation with Hegel at the end of Being and Time while enlisting the resources of his very late lecture of 1962 – “On Time and Being” – to lay down the c…Read more
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1Time for History: The Problem of Time and the Historicity of Michel Foucault's ArchaeologiesDissertation, University of California, Irvine. 1996.I analyze the early works of the French thinker Michel Foucault. I study the essential connections between his historical works, or "archaeologies," and his elaborate articulation on method and historical epistemology, The Archaeology of Knowledge, . Given the fact that Foucault's work has had an enormous impact on how some historians conceptualize the methods and aims of historical inquiry, I take up the question of the historical status of Foucault's method of inquiry, namely "archaeology." By…Read more
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10The Dissolution of the Social Contract in to the Unfathomable Perpetuity of Caste: Questions of Nature, the State, Inequality, and Sovereignty in Hobbes, Hegel, and AmbedkarSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Rajesh Sampath ABSTRACT: This paper examines Ambedkar’s critical view of certain distortions, contradictions, and instabilities in democratic norms, constitutional validity, and citizens’ rights in India’s secular, constitutional, legal, pluralistic democracy. Through a strident deconstruction utilizing Hegelian resources, the paper exposes the contortions and contradictions underpinning Hindu metaphysics in some of its most abstract texts, namely...
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12Reading “On Time and Being” to Construct the ‘Missing’ Division III of Being and Time – or ‘time and Being’ –Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Rajesh Sampath ABSTRACT: This paper will articulate the conditions of thinking about the transition of Division II in Heidegger’s Being and Time in order to imagine the architecture of the missing Division III, which never appeared in the published Part I of Being and Time. The paper explores questions of temporality, historical temporality, and...
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14Inhabiting (CC.) ‘Religion’ in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit to Develop an Ambedkarite Critique of the Blasphemous Nucleus of Upanishadic WisdomSymposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 7 (1): 55-84. 2020.This paper begins with several opening passages from the most esoteric writings in Hinduism’s vast, ancient religious-philosophical heritage, namely the Upanishads. The aim is to reveal certain essential connections between the primordial relation between self and sacrifice while exploring uncanny paradoxes of eternity and time, immortals and mortals and their secret linkages. The work is entirely philosophical in its intent and does not aspire to defend a faith-perspective. The horizon for this…Read more
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319A Hegelian Reading of Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign, Vol. I, to Philosophically Expound Ambedkar’s Critique of Caste in his 1932 “Statement of Gandhji’s Fast”Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 6 (1): 79-96. 2019.This paper will attempt a Hegelian reading of Derrida’s Beast and the Sovereign Vol 1 lectures to unpack certain apories and paradoxes in Ambedkar’s brief 1932 statement on modern India’s founding figure, Gandhi. In that small text Ambedkar is critical of Gandhi’s seemingly saintly attempt at fasting himself to death. Ambedkar diagnoses that Gandhi’s act of self-sacrifice conceals a type of subtle coercion of certain political decisions during India’s independent movement from British colonialis…Read more
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Professional Ethics for TeachersIn P. George Victor (ed.), Social relevance of philosophy: essays on applied philosophy, D.k. Printworld. pp. 3--151. 2002.
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10Re-spiriting Hegel and the passage of deconstruction: Jean Hyppolite and the general theory of epochal transformationJournal of Speculative Philosophy 14 (1): 36-61. 2000.
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6Four Dimensional Time: Twentieth Century Philosophies of History in EuropeInternational Scholars Publications. 1998.This work is a two-division study of twentieth century philosophies of history in Europe. Fields engaged in the study are transcendental philosophy, speculative metaphysics, theology, historiographical theory, and intellectual history. The main question concerns the historical finitude of History and its temporal horizon. The work explores the unsolved consequences of G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Martin Heidegger's Being and Time in twentieth-century German and French philosophies …Read more
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7Inhabiting (CC.) ‘Religion’ in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit to Develop an Ambedkarite Critique of the Blasphemous Nucleus of Upanishadic WisdomSymposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Rajesh Sampath ABSTRACT: This paper begins with several opening passages from the most esoteric writings in Hinduism’s vast, ancient religious-philosophical heritage, namely the Upanishads. The aim is to reveal certain essential connections between the primordial relation between self and sacrifice while exploring uncanny paradoxes of eternity and time, immortals and mortals and their secret linkages. …
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12A Hegelian Reading of Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign, Vol. I, to Philosophically Expound Ambedkar’s Critique of Caste in his 1932 “Statement of Gandhji’s Fast”Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences. forthcoming.Rajesh Sampath ABSTRACT: This paper will attempt a Hegelian reading of Derrida’s Beast and the Sovereign Vol 1 lectures to unpack certain apories and paradoxes in Ambedkar’s brief 1932 statement on modern India’s founding figure, Gandhi. In that small text Ambedkar is critical of Gandhi’s seemingly saintly attempt at fasting himself to death. Ambedkar diagnoses...
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4Four-dimensional time: twentieth century philosophies of history in EuropeInternational Scholars Publications. 1999.This work is a two-division study of twentieth century philosophies of history in Europe. Fields engaged in the study are transcendental philosophy, speculative metaphysics, theology, historiographical theory, and intellectual history. The main question concerns the historical finitude of History and its temporal horizon. The work explores the unsolved consequences of G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Martin Heidegger's Being and Time in twentieth-century German and French philosophies …Read more
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30Book Review: Rawls Explained: From Fairness to Utopia (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 44 (6): 843-847. 2014.
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