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Anti-Brahmin Polemic, Christianity and Primitive Nihilism (Late 19C Western India)

Anti-Brahmin Polemic, Christianity and Primitive Nihilism (Late 19C Western India)

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Anti-Brahmin Polemic, Christianity and Primitive Nihilism (Late 19C Western India)
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<strong>Centre for the Study of Social Systems School of Social Sciences </strong> <strong>CSSS Colloquium </strong> <strong>Dr. Milind Wakankar</strong> (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi) a talk on <strong>Anti-Brahmin Polemic, Christianity and Primitive Nihilism (Late 19C Western India)</strong> Date : <strong>November 12, 2015</strong> <strong>Abstract:</strong> The talk picks up one thread in the millennial history of low-caste fluency by looking at the structural of anti-brahmin polemic in the Satyashodhak movement, from within the conditions of rhetoric made possible by Christian and anti-Christian controversies. Key moments: Phule; Padmanji; Krishnaji Ratnaji Sangle and later in the 1920s, Jawalkar. Key parallels: Nietzsche (period of the Late Notebooks, 1886-1888), Auerbach (posthumous publication of work on Literary Language and its Public in Late Antiquity), Heidegger (phase of intensive lectures on Nietzsche, Schelling and Hegel (1937-1951). <strong>Bio-Data: </strong>Milind Wakankar teaches literature and philosophy at IIT-Delhi. His book on bhakti and the dalit tradition focussing on Kabir was published by Routledge in 2010 with title, Subalternity and Religion.

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