Tadd Fernée
Tadd Graham Fernée belongs to the New Bulgarian University English Studies department, and has lectured in English and the History of Ideas. He recently completed a Fellowship at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, producing forthcoming book Beyond the Faustian Bargain: Indian and Egyptian development experiments in Transnational Perspective. He is the author of Enlightenment and Violence: modernity and nation-making (2014) and co-author of Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism (2014). He is currently a researcher for New York University, working on a forthcoming co-written historical monograph, Al-Ghazali and the Crisis of the 11th century Abbasid Empire. He has authored numerous articles for scholarly journals, in comparative history, social science, and comparative literature.
Phone: +33683191301
Address: India
Phone: +33683191301
Address: India
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The author has compared early modern Indian history to the early modern histories of Persia, Turkey and Western Europe in order to ground analysis of their interconnected 20th century nation-making experiences within a common problematic.
The focus is upon an ethic of reconciliation over totalizing projects as a means to create non-violent conflict resolution in the modern context. It is suggested that an emergent ethic of reconciliation in nation-making—inspired by the Indian paradigm—harbours the potential to create more democratic and open societies, in rejection of the authoritarian patterns that too frequently shaped the experiences of the 20th century.
The author has compared early modern Indian history to the early modern histories of Persia, Turkey and Western Europe in order to ground analysis of their interconnected 20th century nation-making experiences within a common problematic.
The focus is upon an ethic of reconciliation over totalizing projects as a means to create non-violent conflict resolution in the modern context. It is suggested that an emergent ethic of reconciliation in nation-making—inspired by the Indian paradigm—harbours the potential to create more democratic and open societies, in rejection of the authoritarian patterns that too frequently shaped the experiences of the 20th century.