Faculty

Anup Dhar is currently Professor of Philosophy at BML Munjal University. He is also a Permanent Fellow at The Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Center (KKC) for Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology, Institute of Social Theory and Social Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum. Post-structuralist critiques of mental health took Anup Dhar, who has a training in Medicine, to an engagement with Lacanian psychoanalysis. Postcolonial-decolonial critiques of the Left took him to a rethinking of the political. Decolonized psychoanalysis and the decolonized political comes to dialogue in his research through the perspective of Practical Philosophy (or Immersive Transformative Philosophy) and medieval spirituality (or the Tantra-Sahajiya continuum). 

He is completing a book titled ab-original psychoanalysis: Girindrasekhar Bose and Medieval Sahajiya. His orcid id: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4849-2879 
His publications can be accessed here: https://anupdhar.academia.edu/ 

KEY PUBLICATIONS: 

1. (2023): World of the Third and Hegemonic Capital: Between Marx and Freud – London: Palgrave (co-authored with Anjan Chakrabarti).
2. (2023). রাজনীতির ভূত-ভবিষ্যৎ- Kolkata: Ananda Publishers (co-authored with Anjan Chakrabarti).
3. (2020) Marx, Marxism and the Spiritual(co-edited with Anjan Chakrabarti and Serap Kayatekin) – Routledge: New York and London.
4. (2018) Psychoanalysis in the Indian Terroir: Emerging Themes in Culture, Family, and Childhood. Lexington Book’s (Rowman & Littlefield). (co-edited with Manasi Kumar and Anurag Mishra).
5. (2017). Breaking the Silo: Integrated Science Education in India(co-edited with Sridhar. K. and Tejaswini Niranjana) – Orient Blackswan: Hyderabad (co-edited with K. Sridhar and Tejaswini Niranjana).
6. (2015) The Indian Economy in Transition: Globalization, Capitalism and Development – Cambridge University Press: Delhi (co-authored with Anjan Chakrabarti and Byasdeb Dasgupta).
7. (2009): Dislocation and Resettlement in Development: From Third World to World of the Third(New York and London: Routledge) – (co-authored with Anjan Chakrabarti).
8. (2024) “Picture of the Human in Psychoanalysis – Between Practical Philosophy and Medieval Sahajiya” in psychosozial175: Menschenbilder in Psychologie und Psychoanalyse (47. Jg., Nr. 175, 2024, Heft I). Ed: Carlos Kölbl, Pradeep Chakkarath.
9. (2024) “Christianization In-Depth – Between Foucault and Marx” in Sociology of Rationality. Edited By Soumyajit Patra, Tattwamasi Paltasingh. Routledge.
10. (2022) “What if, what one needs to cure oneself of isthe Cure: clandestine complicity of opponents” in Giles Deleuze and Global Terror: Schizoanalysing Power in a Time of Public Beheading and Refugee Exodus. Ed. by Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das (Bloomsbury Continental Philosophy Series (Series Editor: Ian Buchanan).
11. (2021) “What if, one is always already included: Ambedkar and the Politics of Radical Exit” in State of Democracy in India: Essays on Life and Politics in Contemporary Times. Ed. by Manas Ray. Primus Books: New Delhi.
12. (2020) “Politics of Prop Roots: Beyond ‘The Repressive Hypothesis’ ” in (Hi)Stories of Desire: Sexualities and Culture in Modern India. Ed. by Rajeev Kumaramkandathand Sanjay Srivastava. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press.

PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTIONS 

• Fellow at The Hans Kilian and Lotte Köhler Center (KKC) for Cultural Psychology and Historical Anthropology, Institute of Social Theory and Social Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum (2022, 2023, 2024)
• Member of the Editorial Board of Rethinking Marxism(https://rethinkingmarxism.org) and Section Editor of ReMarx
• Editor of the Journal of Practical Philosophy(http://practicalphilosophy.co.in/)
• Member of the Editorial Collective of ‘From the Margins: a journal of critical theory in a postcolonial setting’ – Kolkata (1998-2003)
• Member of the Editorial Collective of Tepantar: a journal of critical political philosophy and praxis – Kolkata (2004-2009; in Bengali)