LECTURE ON JAINISM AND THE COMPOSITE, 'MESSY' HUMAN MIND BY DR. TILLO DETIGE
Dr. Tillo Detige will deliver the 22nd online lecture on Jainism and the composite, ‘messy’ human mind on
May 12, 2025.
The talk highlights how Jains and scholars of Jainism encounter paradoxes in various fields. It will explore solutions for the seeming ‘inconsistencies’ which are typically sought through attempts at reconciliation of contradictory perspectives or arguments. It argues that coming to terms with the heterogeneity and the occasional ‘messiness’ of our composite minds and collective systems frees us from self-imposed expectations of ‘consistency’ and an ultimately restricting, rationalistic drive for singularity.
Dr. Detige, the Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral Fellow in Jainism at Rutgers University, USA, investigates the Digambara Jain ascetic lineages of early modern Western and Central India. His work appears in journals and edited volumes, including Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jainism (2020). Dr. Detige earned his PhD (2024) from the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), where he also taught Sanskrit and Hindi.
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The talk highlights how Jains and scholars of Jainism encounter paradoxes in various fields. It will explore solutions for the seeming ‘inconsistencies’ which are typically sought through attempts at reconciliation of contradictory perspectives or arguments. It argues that coming to terms with the heterogeneity and the occasional ‘messiness’ of our composite minds and collective systems frees us from self-imposed expectations of ‘consistency’ and an ultimately restricting, rationalistic drive for singularity.
Dr. Detige, the Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral Fellow in Jainism at Rutgers University, USA, investigates the Digambara Jain ascetic lineages of early modern Western and Central India. His work appears in journals and edited volumes, including Brill’s Encyclopedia of Jainism (2020). Dr. Detige earned his PhD (2024) from the Center for Religious Studies (CERES) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany), where he also taught Sanskrit and Hindi.
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