Cognitive Shift in Indology - A Civilizational Necessity ►10th May 2010

Bhogilal Leherchand Institute of Indology

You are cordially invited to the Special Lecture

of

Prof. Prashant Dave

on

Cognitive Shift in Indology - A Civilizational Necessity

in

Acharya Hemachandra Suri Lecture Series: VII

on

Monday, 10th May, 2010 at 10.30 A.M. Followed by Lunch

Presided by

Prof. Godabarish Misra

Member Secretary, Indian Council of Philosophical Research
New Delhi

Prof. Prashant R. Dave taught Philosophy for 38 years at under-graduate and post-graduate levels. He has participated in a number of National and International Seminars and presented papers, like, Zen Buddhism - a micro-level strategy for peace, In search of a paradigm in social sciences, Gandhiji and Foucault, Gayatri Chakravarti Spivak's approach to comparative literature. He has also delivered a keynote address on Questioning Social Science at the National Seminar on 'Science Methodology' at the Centre for Social Studies in Surat.
He has translated in Gujarati Rajarshee Muni's book Awakening Life Force. Now-a-days he is involved in the Gujarati translation of Sivaya Subramuniya Swami's Trilogy - Dancing with Shiva, Living with Shiva, Merging with Shiva.

At present he is working at L. D. Institute of Indology as an Honorary Professor of Philosophy. His areas of interests are - Indian and Western Philosophy, Western Aesthetics and Philosophy of language. He is also interested in the Philosophical thoughts of Foucault, Habermas and Gadamar.