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Shaj Mohan is a philosopher based in the subcontinent. His contributions are in the areas of metaphysics, ontology, political philosophy, and philosophy of science and technology. He is the co-author of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics (Bloomsbury, 2019, Foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy), and the forthcoming Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution (Hurst Publishers). Divya Dwivedi is a philosopher based in the subcontinent. She is an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi where she teaches Philosophy and Literature. Her works have been concerned with the ontology of the literary, the formality of law, the literary, postcolonial racisms, political concepts, and speed. Dwivedi is the co-author with Shaj Mohan of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics (Foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy; Bloomsbury, 2019). She is also the co-editor of Narratology and Ideology (Ohio State University Press, 2018) and Public Sphere from outside the West (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). Dwivedi has recently edited “L’Inde: Colossale et Capitale,” a special issue of Revue Critique (2020) and a special issue of Revue des femmes philosophes (“Intellectuels, Philosophes, Femmes en Inde: des espèces en danger”, 2017).
  • Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution [Excerpt]

    Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution [Excerpt]

    Republished here is an excerpt from philosophers Divya Dwivedi and Shaj Mohan’s forthcoming collection of essays, “Indian Philosophy, Indian Revolution: On Caste and Politics” along with an introduction from the authors. The excerpted essay, “Democracy and Revolution,” tackles the dialectical relationship between the two concepts in service of the realization of democracy as “the power…