YOGA-ANTICOLONIAL PHILOSOPHY: An Overview By Shyam Ranganathan Who Is This Book For? I wrote Yoga—Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action Focused Guide to Practice (Singing Dragon 2024) for students of Yoga and philosophy in the broad sense. It is written for people who have a practice of “yoga” or teach yoga, or are interested in the history […]
Kant and Racial Discrimination, Ruhr- University Bochum, Feb. 24-25, 2022
Kant’s discriminatory statements and implications in some of his works, such as on physical geography, anthropology, and especially in his continuous theory of race, might shock those who are rather acquainted with or inspired by his prominent egalitarian universalism in moral and, in part, legal philosophy. Kant’s defense of racial hierarchy, his condoning of race-based […]