Sublime

the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.

What we have here is the circulation, or rather, the circulatory nature of historical ideas and practices over a hundred years, emerging from one part of the world, India, traversing continents and visited by various transformations while still retaining recognizable connections with its sources, and then returning to India enriched and made usable

On the eve of the close encounter with the West, China’s distinctive political trajectory (still dominated by its symbiotic relationship with Inner Asia) propelled it not towards an all-powerful oriental despotism (imagined by Europeans) – which might have permitted drastic change in the face of external challenge – but instead still further toward

The third category is methodological and conceptual. My goal as a scholar is to replace the still dominant ‘national-modernization’ model with the paradigm of ‘sustainable modernity’ for the humanistic disciplines.

History as circulatory – both in the prefigured and configured versions – is a crucial missing term in the philosophical debate. Events simultaneously disperse across a variety of human and non-human borders, triggering and creating new events and processes. Historicality, narrative and power are, among other things, human modes of responding to th