Critique, Genealogy and Reflective Action

Speaker: Vivek Dhareshwar
In association with Street Scholars, Bangalore

February 3, 2011 | 6.30 pm
Goethe Hall, Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai

What kind of conceptualization did Marxism represent? And how to revisit that to achieve a reflective relationship to the present? Vivek Dhareshwar will set out a framework for understanding the trajectory of Marxism in India through a deliberation on the three terms of the title: Critique, Genealogy and Reflective Action.

Vivek Dhareshwar is an independent scholar based in Bangalore. He was a Senior Fellow and Director of Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore. Dhareshwar has contributed in many scholarly journals and publications and is the co-editor of ‘Interrogating Modernity: Studying Culture in India’. He is currently working on two book projects – ‘A philosophical exploration of the relationship between norms and experience’ and ‘the idea of multiple sites of ethical learning in Gandhi’.

Street Scholars seeks to initiate discussions that bring a certain kind of reflection to bear on our varied practices, our ways of engaging the world, (artistic, political or academic). Street Scholars emerged from conversations between Indira Chowdhury, Vivek Dhareshwar and Lata Mani with the belief that scholarship should be alive, like the streets, to questions and to ways of reflecting on them.