The seminar aims to work with the notion of transformation, to reflect on this salient concept and ideal in different contexts, to question its possibilities and impossibilities. We will discuss philosophical materials by Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, Daya Krishna, Ramchandra Gandhi and Arindam Chakrabarti. Their texts will also work as a theory, through which we will analyze literary and cinematic materials, such as Salman Rushdie's "Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights" (2015) and Jim Jarmusch's film Paterson (2016).

The selection of texts indicates that the main question to be reflected upon in this seminar is the question of self-identity. Another question, "practical" if you wish, is whether philosophy can do more that merely discuss transformation, namely whether it can actually contribute to-, or even bring about transformation, and how.