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
A philosophical investigation of Gandhi's thought exploring his writings and practices within a unique system of their own.
Shaj Mohan is a philosopher based in the subcontinent. Divya Dwivedi is a philosopher based in the subcontinent. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
This book of philosophy from the subcontinent is a new beginning
for philosophy everywhere, because it liberates philosophy from
metaphysical and theological thinking. It also frees philosophy
from the geo-political and ethnocentric divisions of east and
west.
*The Wire*
A unique book that endeavours to go beyond the usual study of the
Mahatma, his role in the freedom struggle and his ideology of
non-violence ... Gives new meanings to concepts such as resistance,
power, truth and force.
*Frontline Magazine*
Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics is something
that has been crying out to be done, but that no-one before Shaj
Mohan and Divya Dwivedi seem to have thought seriously of doing. It
adds a new approach and addition to the study of Gandhian thought.
It is a most valuable and original contribution.
*Sushil Mittal, Professor of Hindu Studies and Gandhi Studies,
James Madison University. USA*
Shaj Mohan and Divya Dwivedi’s Gandhi and Philosophy is a profound
and at crucial points critical re-examination of Gandhi’s thought.
But their book does much more than give us a radically new Gandhi.
It is a sophisticated reflection on modernity in its own right.
Drawing on a wide range of philosophical resources, Gandhi and
Philosophy succeeds in expanding our horizons and in opening up new
lines of thought.
*Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and
African American Studies, Penn State University, USA*
A figure of spiritual resistance to modernity, today Gandhi draws
the limits of geopolitics as we can test them in the planetary
regression characteristic of the beginning of this century. Mohan
and Dwivedi reveal the main lines of his thought circumscribing the
limits of the East-West division as well as the ambiguities of a
politics of resistance whose project would have been, ultimately,
to create a Hindu nation invested with a global eschatological
mission – the old schema. By reaffirming the need of critique for
what they call ana-stasis, they give us to reconsider the history
of nihilism in the eschatological contemporaneity and shows its
ultimate limits.
*Bernard Stiegler, Centre Georges-Pompidou, France*
This is how this book comes to our attention and contributes to
orient us, if I may say so, toward a thought, and even a world,
neither humanist nor reduced to suffering in the name of Truth. In
the terms of this work: neither metaphysics nor hypophysics.
*Jean-Luc Nancy*
Gandhi and Philosophy reclaims Gandhi as one of the great
Enlightenment thinkers of “system”, a philosophical identification
of nature with law, morality and the good that positions him in the
line of Spinoza, Newton, Wordsworth and contemporary deep ecology.
With unerring tact and remorseless precision, Mohan and Dwivedi
unpick the interlocking sets of principles that enabled Gandhi’s
controversial remediation of political, cultural, and social
modernity as transgressions of humanity’s maximum limits and
destructions of futurity—a critique derived from the logics of a
philosophical position that Mohan and Dwivedi resituate as a
formidable force for our times.
*Robert J. C. Young, Julius Silver Professor of English and
Comparative Literature, New York University, USA*
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