Rajiv Kaushik
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Rajiv Kaushik studied philosophy at the University of Toronto (1996-2000) and at the Husserl Archives in Leuven, Belgium (2002-3). He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Essex (2003-6). He has published widely in the areas of language, hermeneutics and aesthetics, and on the phenomenologies of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He has two books on Merleau-Ponty’s aesthetics and ontology, Art and Institution: Aesthetics in Merleau-Ponty’s Late Works and Art, Language and Figure: Excursions in Hyper-Dialetic.
Research Interest
Phenomenology (esp. Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty), Hermeneutics, Aesthetics
Publications
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Kaushik, Rajiv. “Affectivity and Religious Experience: Husserl’s God in the Unpublished Manuscriptsâ€. The New Yearbook of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Research Vol. 8 2008 pp. 55-71 (published in 2009).
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Kaushik, Rajiv. “Physis and Fleshâ€. Analecta Husserliana, Vol. 104 2009. pp 77-91.
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Kaushik, Rajiv. “The Obscene and the Corpse in the Works of Jean-Michel Basquiatâ€. Janus Head: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Special Issue 2010. Vol. 12, pp. 109-124.
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Kaushik, Rajiv. “Psyche and Civilization: The Far Reaches of Merleau-Ponty’s Natural Ontologyâ€. Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. Vol. 14, pp. 347-366.
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Kaushi, Rajiv. “The Shape of Things: Separations and Symbolics in Merleau-Pontyâ€. Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies Concerning Merleau-Ponty’s Thought.Vol. 18. Forthcoming in 2016.
