Overview
Hegel's India presents, collected together in one volume, all of Hegel's writings on and about India. It is remarkable how much effort Hegel expended on what he ultimately characterized merely as fantastic, subjective, wild, dreamy, frenzied, absurd, and repetitive. Hegel also presented a scathing social critique of the caste-order a theme reiterated in all his works. The central provocative issue is: if Indian art, religion, and philosophy, are so grossly inadequate, what explains his life-long fascination with it in this unparalleled way? This reinterpretation of Hegel's India writings argues that Indian thought haunted Hegel, representing a sort of evil twin to his own philosophy. He did achieve two points of clarity in distinguishing his own thought from Indian philosophy: the first was to focus on freedom, and thus he railed perpetually against the caste system; the second was to indicate the necessity for dialectical, progressive mediation, and thus he spoke in contrast on the stasis of Indian thought. But did Hegel really ever manage to exorcise this evil twin haunting his work? Hegel's India raises such crucial questions while comprehensively and systematically presenting the various texts that lay out Hegel's reflections, shedding new light on Indological and Hegelian studies.
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Author: Aakash Singh Rathore (Jawaharlal Nehru University) ,
Rimina Mohapatra (Publishing Manager, Routledge India, Taylor & Francis Group, New Delhi)
Publisher: OUP India
Imprint: OUP India
Dimensions:
Width: 14.80cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 22.40cm
Weight: 0.494kg
ISBN: 9780199468270
ISBN 10: 0199468273
Pages: 324
Publication Date: 26 January 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""[C]areful comparative readings of these thinkers and Hegel can throw new light on understanding social and economic inequalities in India. More than anyone else, intellectuals and activists challenging entrenched casteism and the upsurge of Hindu fundamentalism in India will be eternally grateful for Hegel's India.""--Karthick Ram Manoharan, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"
[C]areful comparative readings of these thinkers and Hegel can throw new light on understanding social and economic inequalities in India. More than anyone else, intellectuals and activists challenging entrenched casteism and the upsurge of Hindu fundamentalism in India will be eternally grateful for Hegel's India. --Karthick Ram Manoharan, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books
Author Information
Rimina Mohapatra is Publishing Manager, Routledge India, Taylor & Francis Group, New Delhi Aakash Singh Rathore is visiting faculty, Centre for Law and Governance, JNU, Delhi
