Pratap Bhanu Mehta - ‘Failure, Self-Worth and Agency in Modern Liberalism’

Presenting ‘On Failing’ - the fifth symposium in the University of East Anglia (UEA) ‘literary activism’ series happened on February 14-15, 2020, in partnership with Ashoka University.
‘Failure presupposes one is an agent to begin with. This talk explores the way in which
conceptions of failure are embedded in larger conceptions of agency, and how these change
over time.’