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<p>TK.C. Bhattacharya's investigation into the phenomenology of subjectivity starts with a linguistic turn: sharply distinguishing the unmeanable consciousness (cit which is aviaya) from the referent of personal pronouns such as "I", "You" or "He/ She". After giving the reasons why even the word "I" does not refer to this subject (the feeler who cannot be felt, the knower who cannot be known), the paper compares K. C. Bhattacharya's account of the subject with the analysis of subjectivity offered by his student N. V. Banerjee. Not only the styles of thinking and writing of KCB versus NVB are shown to be different, but the contents of their respective theories of subjective consciousness also are substantially distinct. NVB pays attention to the intersubjective plural first person pronoun: "We" about which K.C. Bhattacharya is silent. The essay ends with the author's own view suggested rather aphoristically: that the "I" is best interpreted as the "you" of the you. This view places the second person singular as a briedge between the I and the We.</p>

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From “I” to “We”: The Semantics and Phenomenology of Subjectivity in the Thought of K.C. Bhattacharya and N.V. Banerjee

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    2026年6月30日

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  • Arindam Chakrabarti

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TK.C. Bhattacharya's investigation into the phenomenology of subjectivity starts with a linguistic turn: sharply distinguishing the unmeanable consciousness (cit which is aviaya) from the referent of personal pronouns such as "I", "You" or "He/ She". After giving the reasons why even the word "I" does not refer to this subject (the feeler who cannot be felt, the knower who cannot be known), the paper compares K. C. Bhattacharya's account of the subject with the analysis of subjectivity offered by his student N. V. Banerjee. Not only the styles of thinking and writing of KCB versus NVB are shown to be different, but the contents of their respective theories of subjective consciousness also are substantially distinct. NVB pays attention to the intersubjective plural first person pronoun: "We" about which K.C. Bhattacharya is silent. The essay ends with the author's own view suggested rather aphoristically: that the "I" is best interpreted as the "you" of the you. This view places the second person singular as a briedge between the I and the We.