Raghwendra Singh

Raghwendra Pratap Singh, Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, has been teaching and doing research on different schools of Modern Western Philosophy, Post-modern Philosophy and Indian Philosophy. His specialization is in German Idealism, Structuralism, post-Structuralism, the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, Upanisads, Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta. He has to his credit six authored and five edited books besides a large number of research papers and articles published in journals of great repute in India and abroad.

He has received several prizes and awards which include SRC Gold Medal for his contributions in the field of philosophy (1998) and American Biographical Institute “MAN OF THE YEAR, 2001” for contributions in the field of philosophy and education. Dr. Singh has delivered lectures at many universities in USA, namely the Centre for Indic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and School of Divinity, Harvard University, Boston.