J. N. Mohanty

Jitendra Nath Mohanty (also J. N. Mohanty) is an emeritus professor of philosophy at Temple University. Born in Cuttack, in 1928 in Orissa, India, Professor Mohanty had a distinguished career where he stood first in all public examinations and in B.A. and M.A. examinations at the University of Calcutta. Subsequently, he did a Ph.D. from University of Göttingen in 1954. In his long academic career, he had taught at the University of Burdwan, University of Calcutta, New School for Social Research, University of Oklahoma, Emory University, and Temple University and has held visiting professorships at many renowned universities.

Professor Mohanty's area of expertise includes both Western (particularly German) philosophy and Eastern philosophy (particularly Indian philosophy). He has written over twenty scholarly books and numerous journal articles on different areas of philosophy including epistemology, logic, and phenomenology. He has written extensively on Immanuel Kant, founded ''Husserl Studies,'' and has published a major book on the development of Edmund Husserl’s thought.

Professor Mohanty has been a past-president of the Indian Philosophical Congress, the Society for Asian and Comparative philosophy. His other honours include a gold medal from the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, and the Humboldt Prize from the German government in honor of his scholarly work. He received an honorary D.Litt. from the University of Calcutta in 2013 and an honorary doctorate from Ravenshaw University in 2017.

Selected bibliography

* ''Lectures on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason'' by J. N. Mohanty (edited by Tara Chatterjea, Sandhya Basu, and Amita Chatterjee) (Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2014)
* ''Essays on Consciousness and Interpretation'' by J. N. Mohanty (edited with an Introduction by Tara Chatterjea) (Oxford University Press, 2009)
* ''The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)'' ( Yale University Press)
* ''Between Two Worlds: East and West, an Autobiography'' (Oxford University Press, 2002)
* ''Classical Indian Philosophy'' (Oxford University Press, 2002)
* ''Explorations in Western Philosophy: Essays by J.N. Mohanty Volumes 1 and 2'' by J. N. Mohanty and (edited by Bina Gupta) (Oxford University Press, 2001)
* ''The Self and its Other'' (Oxford University Press, 2000).
* ''Logic, Truth, and the Modalities'' (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999).
* ''Husserl and Frege (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)'' (Indiana University Press, 1982).
* ''Edmund Husserl's Theory of Meaning'' (Springer, 1976).
* ''The Concept of Intentionality'' (Warren H. Green, 1971).

References

External links

Mohanty's profile at Temple A dose of old-school Indian honesty

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