The Philosophy Club of Calcutta is organising the event in association with Alliance Francaise du Bengale Source: Philosophy Club of Calcutta
The Philosophy Club of Calcutta will talk through French Philosophy on 4 August 2023. The meeting is being organised in association with Alliance Francaise du Bengale at Park Mansions, Park Street, Kolkata with Edugraph as the Digital Media Partner. The Philosophy Club of Calcutta was established in 2022 to popularise the discipline among those who are interested in it and open up the horizons of philosophical thinking and dialogues.
“I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.”~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The forthcoming session, as the theme suggests, will dissert on the intellectual contributions of writings by French theorists from the Age of Enlightenment to French postmodernism. Prof Md Inamur Rahaman, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Presidency University will deliver a lecture on ‘Rousseau on Social Contract’. Dr. Swati Chatterjee will follow up with the next lecture on ‘Foucault Panopticon’. The event is ‘Open to All’ and will begin at 5:30 pm. The audience will engage in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s work on ways to preserve human freedom in 18th‑century French society. The programme also contains a critique of the inbuilt system of control on medical and sexual practices, and the entire praxis of knowledge by Michel Foucault.
This Club seeks to be a platform for the city of Calcutta to revitalise its culture of debate and discourse, thereby making serious philosophical conversations accessible in the City of Joy.