SAIH Seminar: HT22 Wk3: "Downward Equalization”: A Gandhian Inversion of Dignity and Rights-Claims

Convener: Zobia Haq

Speaker: Professor Manu Samnotra (University of South Florida)

Series: South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Manu Samnotra is an Associate Professor in political theory at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Worldly Shame: Ethos in Action. Worldly Shame examines shame’s worldly possibilities through the lens of Hannah Arendt’s political writings. Samnotra makes a case both for shame’s capacity to orient us towards a shared political world, and for reading Arendt as an anti-colonial thinker. Operating broadly within the frame of Comparative Political Theory, his next project brings Gandhian thought into conversation with liberal and republican conceptions of political dignity.

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