Kenan Malik

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Kenan Malik , FRSA (born January 26, 1960 in India ) is a British publicist , university lecturer and radio journalist of Indian origin. As a science writer, his focus is on the philosophy of biology and contemporary theories on multiculturalism , pluralism and the concept of race .

Academic career

Malik was born in India and grew up in Manchester . He studied history and philosophy of science at Imperial College in London and neurobiology at the University of Sussex. At the Center for Research into Perception and Cognition (CRPC), he worked in psychological research.

He has lectured at several universities, including the Institute of Biological Anthropology at Cambridge University , St Antony's College and the Institute for Continuing Education at Oxford University , the Institute of Historical Research in London; the Institute of Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths College , London, the Institute of Politics at Liverpool University and the Institute for Social Policy and Sociology at Newcastle University . He also held lectureships at Nottingham Trent University, the University of Oslo and the European University in Florence . In 2003 he was a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne .

He has published in various magazines including The Guardian , Financial Times , the Independent , Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times , Sunday Telegraph , New Statesman , Prospect , TLS, The Times Higher Education Supplement, and Nature . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and one of the presenters of the BBC Radio 4's political magazine Analysis .

Academic focus

The focus of his academic interest is the philosophy of biology and the mind, scientific methodology and epistemology , the theory of human nature, science policy, bioethics , political philosophy, history , philosophy and sociology of the concept of race as well as the history of ideas .

His book "The Meaning of Race" ( The importance of race ) examines the historical development and the philosophical and political roots of the racial term. It continues to explore the relationship between the concept of race and contemporary theories of multiculturalism and pluralism. "Man, Beast and Zombie" ( humans, animals and Zombie ) explores the historical causes, philosophical and theological views and methodological problems of contemporary theories of human nature , especially epistemology and evolutionary psychology . The book not yet published "The Museum of Difference" ( The Museum of the difference ) deals with the relationship between scientific and political concepts of human differences, as well as between the concepts of human nature and human differences.

Malik is a sharp critic of the ideology of multiculturalism. For him, this is “the idea that people should not be treated the same despite their differences, but rather differently because of these differences”. According to Malik, personal identity becomes a pre-enlightenment function of the respective collective, culture-related group membership. For the “libertarian left, staunch anti-racist and at the same time passionate supporter of the universal values ​​of the Enlightenment”, however, it is necessary to “break the fixation on culture”, especially the respective migrant one, and “break out of the shells of our cultures”.

Works

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Entry at openlibrary.org .
  2. ↑ See his article “Multiculturalism undermines diversity” , The Guardian (UK), March 17, 2010
  3. ↑ Thierry Chervel: "Das Schinkenbrot" , perlentaucher.de, November 23, 2017
  4. ↑ Martin Beglinger in: “Diversity instead of multiculturalism” , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 5, 2017

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SURNAME Malik, Kenan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British publicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH India