Prasenjit Biswas

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Prasenjit Biswas is an Indian professor of philosophy at

The National Human Rights' Commission of India granted relief and compensation to some of the families who suffered due to starvation deaths. Biswas also contributed to United Nations' fourth Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Human Rights process initiated by Working Group on Human Rights (WGHR),New Delhi.

Biswas specializes in continental philosophy and phenomenology with an emphasis on Jacques Derrida, Georgio Agamben, Jean Luc-Nancy, Francoise Laruelle etc. He has worked on Post-Marxist thoughts, Non-Philosophy and currently exploring the notion of Aporia in Social Theory. He also draws meaningful parallels between Continental Philosophy and India's locally rooted philosophical traditions from among Tribal communities.

Rooted in a Sanskritic tradition of doing Darsana in a family of traditional Indian philosophers, he develops a dialogic interface between heterodox Indian philosophical traditions and European and Continental philosophical world-views. His current works are a return to an interdisciplinary worldview traditions in which he combines a policy paradigm such as India's Act East with Southeast and East Asian traditions from a contemporary Indian philosophical point of view of 'Swaraj in Ideas' and Rabindranath Tagore's Cosmopolitan universalism. He writes occasionally in The Statesman on issues related to Northeast India^[2] and often shares his views in national and international media.

Academic career

Biswas obtained his PhD from

• Political economy of underdevelopment of North-East India, Akansha Pub. House, 2004 (with Rifual Ahmed).
• The Postmodern Controversy: Understanding Richard Rorty, Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas, Rawat Publications, 2005.
• Ethnic life-worlds in north-east India: an analysis, New Delhi: Sage, 2008 (with Chandan Suklabaidya).[3]

Construction of Evil in north east India, Sage ( edited with C J Thomas)

Between Philosophy and Anthropology: Aporias of Language, Thought and Consciousness, Notion Press, Chennai, 2017.

Books edited

• Peace in India's North-East: Meaning, Metaphor, and Method: Essays of Concern and Commitment, New Delhi: Regency, 2006 (with C. Joshua Thomas)
  ISBN 8189233483
• Construction of Evil in North East India: Myth, Narrative and Discourse New Delhi: Sage, 2012 (with C. Joshua Thomas).
  ISBN 9788132109457

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