Debashish Banerji is the Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures and the Doshi Professor of Asian Art at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco. He is also the Program Chair for the East-West Psychology department at CIIS. His academic interests lie in postcolonial, cross-cultural and posthuman approaches to Indian philosophy, psychology and culture.
He has authored and edited around ten books and art catalogs:
- on major figures of “the Bengal Renaissance” such as:
- the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore,
- the artist Abanindranath Tagore and
- the spiritual thinker Sri Aurobindo;
- on Critical Posthumanism,
- Yoga Psychology and
- on a variety of creative and art-related projects.
He has curated several exhibitions of Indian and Japanese art and has written and produced a documentary film, Darshan: The Living Art of India (2018).
His most recent books are:
- Meditations on the Isha Upanishad: Tracing the Philosophical Vision of Sri Aurobindo (Maha Bodhi Publishers, 2019) and
- Integral Yoga Psychology: Metaphysics and Transformation as Taught by Sri Aurobindo (Lotus Press, 2020).
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