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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.
Nearly two years on, the experiences and trajectories of the
pandemic across the world have confirmed that it has been in the
grasp of a systemic malaise, 'le mal'. Everywhere evil is as a
viral condition: in the etymological sense of a poison and in the
media-theoretical sense, in its uncontrollable spread, of a
contagion. It is time to revaluate the concept of evil, raising it
as perhaps the only term through which philosophy can reflect on
the pandemic. This collection contains responses from moral and
political philosophy, epistemology, and ontology, literary studies,
theology and psychoanalysis. It is a collective meditation which
takes a plural approach to the sufferings of different parts of the
world, deploying a stance dedicated to place and specificity.Their
distinct contributions arise from multiple traditions, with voices
from within and beyond the "western" canon. The eighteen mediations
decline the temptation to isolate the pandemic as a simple great
event, equal across the globe that it continues to devastate.
Instead, like the witches of Macbeth, they come together as a
gathering to speak of this state of evil, for it is our own
condition. They explore the hesitating question, which yet
confesses a terrifying suspicion: is it possible to speak of evil
in the time of the pandemic?
The Public Sphere from Outside the West brings together established
and emerging new voices from philosophy, literature, anthropology,
history, migration studies and information technology to address
the present reality of the public sphere. In the age where everyone
is in the public and everything is visible, this volume creates a
delay in which the internet of things, mass surveillance and social
media are asked "What is/not the Public?" The essays bring to
attention the formation of geo-politically and historically
distinct public spheres from South Africa, India, America and
Europe. Such formations are found not only in the postcolonial
histories of print, photography, cinema and caricature but also
those underway in the digital era, such as the Arab Spring, Occupy
movements and Anonymous. Through critical engagement with
philosophers such as Kant, Heidegger, Benjamin, Habermas and Arendt
, the determining concepts of the Public Sphere-privacy, secrecy,
reason, the people-are shown to be undergoing epistemological and
practical ruptures. Demonstrating the necessity of these
considerations to understand the world public that is rapidly
transforming this concept in radical ways through technologies
today, this is the first collection on the subject to feature an
impressive range of international thinkers. Global and timely in
outlook, it breaks new ground and changes our way of looking at
politics in the 21st century.
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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