Gandhi and philosophy: on theological anti-politics

By:

Mohan, Shaj

Contributor(s):

Dwivedi, Divya [Co author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bloomsbury Academic 2019 LondonDescription: ix, 272 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:

9789388414432

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

181.4 M6G2

Summary: Gandhi and Philosophy presents a breakthrough in philosophy by foregrounding modern and scientific elements in Gandhi's thought, animating the dazzling materialist concepts in his writings and opening philosophy to the new frontier of nihilism. This scintillating work breaks with the history of Gandhi scholarship, removing him from the postcolonial and Hindu-nationalist axis and disclosing him to be the enemy that the philosopher dreads and needs. Naming the congealing systematicity of Gandhi's thoughts with the Kantian term hypophysics, Mohan and Dwivedi develop his ideas through a process of reason that awakens the possibilities of concepts beyond the territorial determination of philosophical traditions. The creation of the new method of criticalisation - the augmentation of critique - brings Gandhi's system to its exterior and release. It shows the points of intersection and infiltration between Gandhian concepts and such issues as will, truth, violence, law, anarchy, value, politics and metaphysics and compels us to imagine Gandhi's thought anew. https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/gandhi-and-philosophy-9789388414432/

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Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface

1. Hypophysics
2. Scalology
3. The Faculties 1: Body
4. The Faculties 2: Mind and Soul
5. Dynamics: Active and Passive
6. The Law of the Maker
7. Truth and Will
8. Violence and Resistance
9. Critical Nation
10. Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Gandhi and Philosophy presents a breakthrough in philosophy by foregrounding modern and scientific elements in Gandhi's thought, animating the dazzling materialist concepts in his writings and opening philosophy to the new frontier of nihilism.

This scintillating work breaks with the history of Gandhi scholarship, removing him from the postcolonial and Hindu-nationalist axis and disclosing him to be the enemy that the philosopher dreads and needs. Naming the congealing systematicity of Gandhi's thoughts with the Kantian term hypophysics, Mohan and Dwivedi develop his ideas through a process of reason that awakens the possibilities of concepts beyond the territorial determination of philosophical traditions. The creation of the new method of criticalisation - the augmentation of critique - brings Gandhi's system to its exterior and release. It shows the points of intersection and infiltration between Gandhian concepts and such issues as will, truth, violence, law, anarchy, value, politics and metaphysics and compels us to imagine Gandhi's thought anew.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/gandhi-and-philosophy-9789388414432/

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