Plurality and the other in Ramchandra Gandhi’s hermeneutics of being

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378009%3A_____%2F25%3A00640495" target="_blank" >RIV/68378009:_____/25:00640495 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

—

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

—

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Plurality and the other in Ramchandra Gandhi’s hermeneutics of being

Original language description

This chapter pursues Ramchandra Gandhi’s (1937-2007) ontological vision of plurality as the self-images of consciousness, which appear on the luminous ‘mirror’ or ‘screen’ of itself. I first situate Gandhi’s extra-sampradāyic context, drawing out the distinctiveness of his approach to consciousness and plurality vis-à-vis the confluence of Advaita Vedānta and Śaiva nondualism. In doing so, I trace a speculative genealogy of his model of mirror and image through Ramana Maharshi and the section on knowledge from the Tripurārahasya. I show how Gandhi understands consciousness as naturally self-multiplying, objectifying itself as an ‘other’ in an eternal game of self-concealment and self-realisation. Contrasting his view on identity and difference from his contemporary Daya Krishna, I read Gandhi’s position on the simultaneity of consciousness and images with and against Deleuze and Guttari’s identification of monism and pluralism. I argue that Gandhi’s ontology is a kind of monistic pluralism that is not opposed to various kinds of diversity but rather aims to undercut dualisms, including those at the root of communalism, asymmetrical power, and anthropocentric bias. Positioning diversity in context to the ethical implications of our shared presence in consciousness, Gandhi cultivates a ‘pluralism’ that sees others without a reified sense of otherness.

Czech name

—

Czech description

—

Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

—

OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA21-31380S" target="_blank" >GA21-31380S: The transnational entanglements of global Hinduism: Swami Abhedananda’s Cosmopolitan Vedānta</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Provincialising Pluralism. Difference and diversity in South Asian traditions

ISBN

978-1-3504-3603-9

Number of pages of the result

26

Pages from-to

439-465

Number of pages of the book

530

Publisher name

Bloomsbury Academic

Place of publication

London

UT code for WoS chapter

—