T Henderson

Enjoyed reading this meaty, delicious and powerful book a lot because it helped me to rewire my neural nets to kingdom come. Mostly it is easy to get into because they don’t hide arguments like Deleuze did all the time and never any distractions here with jokes like Zizek. But it is sometimes very funny like only philosophers can be. This book can seem tough for ‘theory heads’ because it doesn’t use most of the current terminology and theoretical paradigms which is why I love this so much in the first place. I am still wondering if this book is the beginning of beyond metaphysics (Jean-Luc Nancy says this book really really is) or a new stage in the development of Nietzsche’s hammer project. I want to quote what Robert Bernasconi said about this book “the sentences from this book can be turned into t-shirts and soon we find those t-shirts”. To give a sample “politics is the fight for freedom and freedom is inseparable from the fight for it”. That’s a shirt! Quotes from some other reviews are like this: “Gandhi and Philosophy often reads like a thriller, but at times it demands careful attention, which is not surprising since it is an original work in philosophy already recognised by some of the important contemporary philosophers such as Nancy, Stiegler and Bernasconi.” “This book of philosophy from the subcontinent is a new beginning for philosophy everywhere, because it liberates philosophy from metaphysical and theological thinking. It also frees philosophy from the geo-political and ethnocentric divisions of east and west.” “A seminal if difficult read for those with an appetite for philosophy. But as the poet said: ‘Errors like straw upon the water flow/he that would seek for pearls must dive below.’”