Franson Manjali


Franson Davis Manjali is an Indian philosopher, translator and editor. He is well-versed in both Oriental and Western philosophical traditions and his work is largely on the philosophy of language in the tradition of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Immanuel Kant and, most importantly, Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy. He is presently a professor of linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India.

Titles in English

Books Authored, Edited and Translated:
Labyrinths of Language - Philosophical and Cultural Investigations, New Delhi: Aakar Books, 2014.
Philosophical Chronicles. Translation of the French book Chroniques Philosophiques by Jean-Luc Nancy. New York: Fordham University Press. 2008.
Language, Discourse and Culture: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives. New Delhi: Anthem Press, 2007.
Literature and Infinity. Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2001.
Meaning, Culture and Cognition. New Delhi: Bahri Publications, 2000.
Nuclear Semantics — Towards a Theory of Relational Meaning. New Delhi: Bahri Publications, 1991.
Poststructuralism and Cultural Theory: The Linguistic Turn and Beyond. Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2006.
Nietzsche: Philologist, Philosopher and Cultural Critic. Allied Publishers, New Delhi, 2006.
. Language, Culture and Cognition. New Delhi: Bahri Publications, 1998.
. Language and Cognition. New Delhi: Bahri Publications. 1993.
. Language, Society and Discourse. New Delhi: Bahri Publications. 1992
Morphogenesis of Meaning. Berne: Peter Lang. 2004.