ABSTRACT

The Conclusion highlights how the book treads the path of the kind of philosophy which is related to reality. Following this path, it argues that it is important to use both classical Indian philosophies and modern Western philosophies to understand modern India, as the latter is a mix of both the modern West and pre-modern India. It diagnoses the reasons why the practice of using philosophers from the West in India is not making desirable progress. For instance, bringing those philosophers who stand tall in the West into India, where corresponding institutional intellectual space is lacking, is a problem. At the same time, it is necessary to bring them to India. Against this background, each chapter is made to calibrate philosophers from the West, including Rousseau, Derrida, Deleuze, and Guattari. The last chapter brings into discussion Chandidas’s diagnosis of the roots of negation that is better than Bergson’s treatment of negation. This work proposes that this way of calibrating Western philosophers before bringing them to India can make better sense than prevailing practices.