Koenraad Elst

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Far Right and the dissolution of Belgium

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Foreign press correspondents in Brussels are telling their readers and viewers in the home country that the Flemish Far Right is clamouring ...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Chinese philosophy of Change

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Sometime soon, the annual Philosophy Day in the Netherlands is devoted to the theme "change". I responded to the call for papers w...
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Thursday, March 25, 2010

Nostradamus debunked

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Are Nostradamus’ predictions true? Why, they aren’t predictions in the first place, and neither were they written by him. Here my discussion...
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Sunday, January 31, 2010

The meaning of "Yahweh"

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Bible believers often claim that the god-name YHWH or Yahweh means "He Who Is". As someone has just argued it once more on a fo...
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Friday, January 29, 2010

The origin of Japanese

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Was Japanese "made in Japan"? Since Japan was not the cradle of mankind, the first speakers of proto-Japanese must have come from ...
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Jyoti Basu and the unnecessary success of Indian Communism

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Jyoti Basu's demise is not the end of an era. The heyday of Communism in India is over, that turn has already been taken some years ago...
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Friday, January 15, 2010

Makar Sankranti and the Kumbha Mela

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The Kumbha Mela is the world's biggest act of worship. It is currently taking place, and where else but in India? Well into February 201...
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Koenraad Elst
Koenraad Elst (°Leuven 1959) distinguished himself early on as eager to learn and to dissent. After a few hippie years he studied at the KU Leuven, obtaining MA degrees in Sinology, Indology and Philosophy. After a research stay at Benares Hindu University he did original fieldwork for a doctorate on Hindu nationalism, which he obtained magna cum laude in 1998. As an independent researcher he earned laurels and ostracism with his findings on hot items like Islam, multiculturalism and the secular state, the roots of Indo-European, the Ayodhya temple/mosque dispute and Mahatma Gandhi's legacy. He also published on the interface of religion and politics, correlative cosmologies, the dark side of Buddhism, the reinvention of Hinduism, technical points of Indian and Chinese philosophies, various language policy issues, Maoism, the renewed relevance of Confucius in conservatism, the increasing Asian stamp on integrating world civilization, direct democracy, the defence of threatened freedoms, and the Belgian question. Regarding religion, he combines human sympathy with substantive skepticism.
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