Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics

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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. Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Foreword......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Introduction......Page 12 Chapter 1: Hypophysics......Page 24 The science of nature as value......Page 27 Theology, value, and the law......Page 29 The corpus of Gandhi......Page 32 The anatomy of the good......Page 34 The wound of the world......Page 38 Chapter 2: Scalology: Speed......Page 42 The science of ladders......Page 43 Speed and place......Page 46 Taylor at the beginning......Page 49 The ascent and the descent......Page 51 Chapter 3: The Faculties I: Body......Page 60 Body and analogy......Page 61 Can machines worship?......Page 65 Body and freedom......Page 68 Aggregation of powers......Page 70 Functional relations......Page 72 Health and the good......Page 77 Chapter 4: The Faculties II: Mind and Soul......Page 82 Industrial essence and the mind......Page 84 Polynomia......Page 86 Homology......Page 89 Proportional articulation......Page 91 The soul and the span......Page 94 Unrest and the inner voice......Page 98 Chapter 5: Dynamics: Active and Passive......Page 100 Forces and speed......Page 104 What is action?......Page 106 Passive force and active force......Page 110 Passive force......Page 118 Chapter 6: The Law of the Maker......Page 122 Laws and principalities......Page 124 The scientific laws of the Maker......Page 133 Breaking the law......Page 136 Calypsology of the great soul......Page 140 Chapter 7: Truth and Will......Page 146 Truth and telling......Page 149 Truth means ends......Page 154 Truth and secrecy......Page 156 Truth and the maker......Page 160 Truth and will......Page 166 Chapter 8: Violence and Resistance......Page 174 What is resistance?......Page 176 Active and passive......Page 180 Conductance, irresistance, and resistance......Page 183 Violence and the non......Page 185 The violence of being......Page 189 The hypophysics of force......Page 192 Chapter 9: Critical Nation......Page 198 Calypsology and the state......Page 200 The radical and the state......Page 202 Pre-violence and politics......Page 205 The criticalization of thinking......Page 210 Calypso’s island......Page 214 Chapter 10: Conclusion: Anastasis......Page 220 Introduction......Page 230 Chapter 1......Page 231 Chapter 2......Page 234 Chapter 3......Page 237 Chapter 4......Page 241 Chapter 5......Page 243 Chapter 6......Page 246 Chapter 7......Page 250 Chapter 8......Page 254 Chapter 9......Page 258 Chapter 10......Page 262 Bibliography......Page 263 Index......Page 271