Ankur Ranjan

PhD, IIT Madras

Date of Joining: 18th August, 2025
  • Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, BIT Mesra, Ranchi 835215
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Research Areas

  • My research explores modernity and its cultural discontents within the German intellectual tradition that has profoundly shaped and continues to shape academic discourses in political and moral philosophy, philosophical anthropology, and the philosophy of language. My interests lie in the post-Kantian history of ideas in the continental tradition, with a particular focus on eighteenth-century mysticism and Romanticism, as well as existentialism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. At the core of my work is an inquiry into the cultural constitution of modernity and the ways it enables—and constrains—the possibilities of autonomy and critique. More broadly, I engage with contemporary debates on authenticity, modern identity and difference, self-understanding, social ontology, and normative theory. These concerns anchor my academic pursuit of understanding how the ressentiment, anxieties, crises, and demands of modern culture can be both critically interrogated and re-thought.

Work Experience

  • Teaching: 1.2 Years
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Academic Profile

Leadership & Institutional Service

Teaching & Mentorship

Fellowship

  • June 2019-June 2024: Half-Time Research Assistant at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India