Nalini Bhushan taught Philosophy for thirty-four years. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan and taught at Smith College for her entire career. She has authored and co-authored essays in aesthetics, philosophy of chemistry, philosophy of language, cognitive science, and contemporary Indian philosophy. She has co-authored and co-edited books on Trans-Buddhism, the Philosophy of Chemistry, and contemporary Indian Philosophy.Jay L. Garfield FAHA taught Philosophy for forty-five years. He earned his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, and taught at Hampshire College, the University of Tasmania, Smith College, Yale-NUS College, and the Harvard Divinity School. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 36 books and is author of co-author of over 200 articles, chapters, and reviews. His work addresses topics in Indian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, Cognitive Science, Ethics, Epistemology, and Logic.

• Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Subject as Freedom: K.C. Bhattacharyya's Subject as Freedom is best understood when it is contextualized between two bookends-an essay he completed in 1925 prior to composing Subject as Freedom, and one he composed in 1936, shortly after completing Subject as Freedom. The first essay helps the reader to understand how K. C. Bhattacharyya understands illusion by exploring in detail the canonical examplesof the rope mistaken for a snake. The second helps the reader to understand the respect in which K. C. Bhattacharyya understands philosophy as a spiritual discipline. For this reason, the introduction focuses not directly onSubject as Freedom itself, but on the ideas articulated in these two bookend essays. CHAPTER I: The Notion of Subjectivity CHAPTER II: Psychic Fact CHAPTER III: Bodily Subjectivity: The Body as Perceived and Felt CHAPTER IV: Bodily Subjectivity (Contd.): Knowledge of Absence as a Present Fact CHAPTER V: Psychic Subjectivity: The Image CHAPTER VI: Psychic Subjectivity (Contd.): Thought CHAPTER VII: Spiritual Subjectivity: Feeling CHAPTER VIII: Spiritual Subjectivity (Contd.): Introspection CHAPTER IX: Spiritual Subjectivity (Contd.): Beyond Introspection CHAPTER X: The Subject as Freedom

Nalini Bhushan taught Philosophy for thirty-four years. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan and taught at Smith College for her entire career. She has authored and co-authored essays in aesthetics, philosophy of chemistry, philosophy of language, cognitive science, and contemporary Indian philosophy. She has co-authored and co-edited books on Trans-Buddhism, the Philosophy of Chemistry, and contemporary Indian Philosophy.Jay L. Garfield FAHA taught Philosophy for forty-five years. He earned his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, and taught at Hampshire College, the University of Tasmania, Smith College, Yale-NUS College, and the Harvard Divinity School. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 36 books and is author of co-author of over 200 articles, chapters, and reviews. His work addresses topics in Indian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, Cognitive Science, Ethics, Epistemology, and Logic.

• Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Subject as Freedom: K.C. Bhattacharyya's Subject as Freedom is best understood when it is contextualized between two bookends-an essay he completed in 1925 prior to composing Subject as Freedom, and one he composed in 1936, shortly after completing Subject as Freedom. The first essay helps the reader to understand how K. C. Bhattacharyya understands illusion by exploring in detail the canonical examplesof the rope mistaken for a snake. The second helps the reader to understand the respect in which K. C. Bhattacharyya understands philosophy as a spiritual discipline. For this reason, the introduction focuses not directly onSubject as Freedom itself, but on the ideas articulated in these two bookend essays. CHAPTER I: The Notion of Subjectivity CHAPTER II: Psychic Fact CHAPTER III: Bodily Subjectivity: The Body as Perceived and Felt CHAPTER IV: Bodily Subjectivity (Contd.): Knowledge of Absence as a Present Fact CHAPTER V: Psychic Subjectivity: The Image CHAPTER VI: Psychic Subjectivity (Contd.): Thought CHAPTER VII: Spiritual Subjectivity: Feeling CHAPTER VIII: Spiritual Subjectivity (Contd.): Introspection CHAPTER IX: Spiritual Subjectivity (Contd.): Beyond Introspection CHAPTER X: The Subject as Freedom

Nalini Bhushan taught Philosophy for thirty-four years. She earned her PhD at the University of Michigan and taught at Smith College for her entire career. She has authored and co-authored essays in aesthetics, philosophy of chemistry, philosophy of language, cognitive science, and contemporary Indian philosophy. She has co-authored and co-edited books on Trans-Buddhism, the Philosophy of Chemistry, and contemporary Indian Philosophy.Jay L. Garfield FAHA taught Philosophy for forty-five years. He earned his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh, and taught at Hampshire College, the University of Tasmania, Smith College, Yale-NUS College, and the Harvard Divinity School. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 36 books and is author of co-author of over 200 articles, chapters, and reviews. His work addresses topics in Indian philosophy, Buddhist philosophy, Cognitive Science, Ethics, Epistemology, and Logic.

• Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Subject as Freedom: K.C. Bhattacharyya's Subject as Freedom is best understood when it is contextualized between two bookends-an essay he completed in 1925 prior to composing Subject as Freedom, and one he composed in 1936, shortly after completing Subject as Freedom. The first essay helps the reader to understand how K. C. Bhattacharyya understands illusion by exploring in detail the canonical examplesof the rope mistaken for a snake. The second helps the reader to understand the respect in which K. C. Bhattacharyya understands philosophy as a spiritual discipline. For this reason, the introduction focuses not directly onSubject as Freedom itself, but on the ideas articulated in these two bookend essays. CHAPTER I: The Notion of Subjectivity CHAPTER II: Psychic Fact CHAPTER III: Bodily Subjectivity: The Body as Perceived and Felt CHAPTER IV: Bodily Subjectivity (Contd.): Knowledge of Absence as a Present Fact CHAPTER V: Psychic Subjectivity: The Image CHAPTER VI: Psychic Subjectivity (Contd.): Thought CHAPTER VII: Spiritual Subjectivity: Feeling CHAPTER VIII: Spiritual Subjectivity (Contd.): Introspection CHAPTER IX: Spiritual Subjectivity (Contd.): Beyond Introspection CHAPTER X: The Subject as Freedom