Abdul Rahim Afaki

Affiliated Scholar
University of Karachi
Email: [email protected]
Biography
Abdul Rahim Afaki is professor of philosophy at the University of Karachi. He has been affiliated with the same university for more than two decades. Areas of his research interest are Islamic and Western hermeneutics and South Asian studies. He has authored research papers not only on phenomenology, hermeneutics and South Asian culture and politics but also on the issues mutually semantically shared both by Islamic and Western traditions of thought. His many works on such themes have been published in various philosophy journals of international repute like Analecta Husserliana, Phenomenological Inquiry, Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology in Dialogue, Transcendent Philosophy etc. He has presented his research works at many world renowned universities.
Selected publications
- Chapter · 2021 Freedom and the Human Positioning in the Lifeworld: The Transcendence-Immanence Contrast in Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Feminism Analecta Husserliana
- Chapter · 2014 The Cave, the Lifeworld and the Tradition: The Transcendence-Immanence Contrast Perspective Phenomenology of Space and Time
- Chapter · 2012 Apel’s Project of Cognitive Anthropology for Non-Western World and a Supplement of Muslim Proposal Phenomenology and the Human Positioning in the Cosmos
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