[Discussion] UPDATE: Derrida's Indian Philosophical Subtext (3/31/04; collection)

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CFP: Derrida's Indian Philosophical Subtext (Collection)

The deadline for submission has been extended to 31 March 2004.

Papers are invited for a special issue (August 2004) of the online,
peer-reviewed journal _Consciousness, Literature and the Arts_ on
Derrida's Indian philosophical subtext:

This special issue is intended to investigate the dissemination of
Indian philosophy into European post-Enlightenment thought (particularly
Derrida).  Whilst Derrida pays a token acknowledgement to the influence
of the "Indo" in so-called European thought, he does not fully
acknowledge its influence in the concepts articulated as his:
supplement, duty, hospitality.  Although several prominent critics
(Bhatt, Bernasconi) have recently begun to investigate the racism in
Enlightenment thought, particularly in recent issues of the journal
Radical Philosophy, even this field of thought (deconstructing
individual European philosophers as imbricated in the discursive field
of colonialism/racism, thereby tracing a trend in Enlightenment Humanist
thought presaged in England by Robert JC Young, White Mythologies, 1990)
is fairly recent. The sudden spurt in deconstructing the exclusive
biases of humanism ought to be paralleled by research in ancient Indian
texts and how they have influenced, albeit in an unacknowledged way, the
work of the prominent "French" philosopher, Jacques Derrida.  Although
several "disciples" of Derrida exist, notably the so-called "Indian"
postcolonial critic, Gayatri Spivak, not one seems to have realized tat
Derrida's sources come from the ancient Indian sub-continent.  This
special issue of Consciousness, Literature, and the Arts is devoted to
the unraveling of Derrida's conceptual inspiration (his "savoir") by
tracing it to the original sources that Western philosophy is still
reluctant to fully acknowledge.

Please email your abstracts (500-800 words) to W. Haney
(whaney@ausharjah.edu) and to Dimple Godiwala (DimpleGodiwala@aol.com)
by 31 Mar. 2004.  Notification of acceptance will be made by 15 April.
2004.  Completed papers will be due by 30 June 2004.

Dimple Godiwala
Senior Lecturer
School of Arts
York St. John (A College of the University of Leeds)

W. Haney
Prof. of English
American University of Sharjah
United Arab Emirates