About the Book: Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics
Gandhi and Philosophy presents a breakthrough in philosophy by foregrounding
modern and scientific elements in Gandhis 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 Gandhis 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