Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics Contributor(s): Mohan, Shaj (Author), Dwivedi, Divya (Author), Nancy, Jean-Luc (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1474221718 ISBN-13: 9781474221719 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $148.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Hindu - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Individual Philosophers |
Dewey: 181.4 |
LCCN: 2018019437 |
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.27 lbs) 288 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mohan, Shaj: - Shaj Mohan is a philosopher based in India.Dwivedi, Divya: - 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. |