An excerpt from Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation, about Hegel’s little known writings on the Bhagavad Gita.
By Aakash Singh Rathore and Rimina Mohapatra
Published in The Wire, 4 November 2017It is little known that the great teacher of Karl Marx, German philosopher G.W.F. Hegel, wrote extensively on the Gita. Hegel’s long two-part essay entitled, “On the Episode of the Mahabharata Known by the Name Bhagavad-Gita by Wilhelm von Humboldt” is a detailed critique of not only the Indological work of Humboldt, but also of the philosophical foundations and teachings of the Gita itself.
