Gandhi and Philosophy

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Gandhi and Philosophy

On Theological Anti-Politics

Philosophical traditions and schools of thought East Asian and Indian philosophy

Authors: Shaj Mohan, Divya Dwivedi

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Language: English

Published by: Bloomsbury Academic

Published on: 13th December 2018

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 288 pages

ISBN: 9781474221726


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.

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