Reaping as we Sow: Gandhi’s View of Modernity in Hind Swaraj
My analysis seeks to prove that Gandhi’s critique of modernity should be understood on both literal and figurative levels.
To Love or Not to Love Thy Neighbour: Civilization As a Window to the Good
Despite the complexities in their dialogue, the three thinkers nonetheless all stumble into agreement on one point, perhaps our strongest case yet for a universal truth: how we ought to live is inextricably tied to who we ought to be.
The Self, Society, and Liberation in Black Skin, White Masks and the Philosophy of Mohammad Iqbal
Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks provides a robust account of the historical processes and forces instrumental in the experiences of objectification and loss of selfhood of Black/colonized peoples.
There’s No Place Like Home: The Role of Cities in Shaping the Self in The Reluctant Fundamentalist
[…] this essay will discuss how these cities shape Changez’s identity, not just as mere backdrops but as active participants in the story of a man searching for identity, caught between diverging cultures and shifting allegiances.
Shedding Fundamentalism— The American Identity
Through the story of Changez, Hamid challenges one to rethink what the American dream and identity can offer to a foreigner, and whether that is something one should be chasing after at all.
Let Me Tell You A Story: Nonlinear Narratives and Generational Influence in A Bird in the House and As I Remember It
Both Margaret Laurence’s collection of short stories, A Bird in the House, and Elsie Paul’s multimedia digital work, As I Remember It, are uniquely structured works that challenge conventional linear storytelling.
Heir to the Brick House
Within Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House, Vanessa’s independent sense of self is shown to be inherited from her controlling grandfather, which ironically explains the resentment she holds towards him.
Thebes and its Discontents: Psychology and Politics in Sophocles and Freud
A civil war ends when an authoritarian leader takes over the city. A woman tries to bury the body of her brother, but is forbidden by the leader. She speaks out against him, and becomes a rebel against the regime in the process.
So, What Now? Understanding Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality. (And Stay Tuned for the Deepest Secrets of Life.)
It was in the late 19th century that Friedrich Nietzsche launched his famous attack against religion and its moral precepts. Since the time of Nietzsche’s writing, Western society has only become more secular.
Comparing The Philosophies of Mohandas Gandhi and Friedrich Nietzsche As Outlined In On The Genealogy of Morality and Hind Swaraj
Mohandas Gandhi’s treatise Hind Swaraj lays out the philosophical groundwork that outlines how India should depart the British Raj and become a self-governed nation.