Announcing my new co-authored book: Hegel's India: A Reinterpretation, with Texts (with Aakash Singh Rathore), on the inimitable philosopher's obsessive affair with India, published by Oxford University Press! Breaks the myth around this continental Godfather (precursor to Marx, Nietzsche, phenomenology, existentialism, psychoanalysis, semiotics, positivism, analytic philosophy, critical theory, structuralism and all things post).
Žižek, maverick Slovenian pop star, bitterly named 'the most dangerous philosopher in the West' and the 'Elvis of cultural theory', has decided to break in and write a note for it!
"In our postcolonial times,
Hegel’s thoughts on India seem to allow only one reaction: an outright
rejection of Hegel’s racist Eurocentrism. Hegel’s India takes the challenge
of a detailed reading of Hegel’s texts with a surprising result: behind Hegel’s
dismissal of India, there lies not only his profound fascination with India but
also an uncanny proximity between India’s ancient wisdom and Hegel’s
speculative thought. Beneath Hegel’s India, we can discern the traces of what
would have been India’s Hegel. [This book] provides a model of how a dialogue
between different cultures should be practiced, beyond the confines of
Eurocentrism and historicist relativism." — Slavoj Žižek
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