Articles in "Indian Government & Politics"

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/07/07/buddhist-economics-schumacher/

Arthur Schopenhauer has been dubbed the artist’s philosopher on account of the inspiration his aesthetics has provided to artists of all stripes. He is also known as the philosopher of pessimism, as he articulated a worldview that challenges the value of existence. His elegant and muscular prose earn him a reputation as one the greatest German stylists.

Although not the first to coin the term, it is uncontroversial to suggest that the German philosopher, Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), is the “father” of the philosophical movement known as phenomenology.  Phenomenology can be roughly described as the sustained attempt to describe experiences (and the “things themselves”) without metaphysical and theoretical speculations.

http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/why-liberalism-is-still-the-best-way-to-govern/

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/the-songlines-of-secularism/article6148767.ece

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification. His ideas have exerted a seminal influence on the development of contemporary European philosophy. They have also had an impact far beyond philosophy, for example in architectural theory, literary criticism, theology, psychotherapy and cognitive science.

http://academyofideas.com/

http://www.routledge.com/catalogs/a_century_of_knowledge_humanities/5/

http://harpers.org/archive/2014/03/what-is-literature/?single=1

http://online.wsj.com/articles/at-the-end-of-history-still-stands-democracy-1402080661