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Botched Enlightenment: A Conversation
Leela Gandhi and Bhrigupati Singh
Bhrigupati Singh: Leela, I want to discuss a recent event with you because I’m not sure of the horizon from which to consider its significance. The event occurs in your recent book The Common Cause . Like your earlier work, this book makes a world map. Strange figures appear on this map: loinclothed Indian “gymnosophists” in conversation with Greek Cynics, gurus beside minor mutineers. But one doesn’t have to be frugal or rebellious to do philosophy. Kant, as you describe him, becomes…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2015
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Democracy, Philosophy
Subjects
Maps, Postcolonial Theory, The Enlightenment