Indian Perspectives on Martin Heidegger's Event: A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Truth and Nescience

In a world where books write themselves, where speech has no speaker, where death illuminates the living, where essences communicate indeterminacies, where things fold upon themselves, and meanings can be un-thought-where truth consumes everything in purifying fires, and machines create worlds for the benefit of the eradicated other-if seen, the unfathomable event of truth has already taken place, and everything must cease to be as it once was.

This book explores the concept of the event in Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy alongside the notions of truth and nescience in Sankara's Brahmasūtrabhāşya. Through this lens, it examines the question of articulation by mapping conceptual domains and investigating what occurs between them. This negative field raises fundamental questions about the nature of the self, the role of agency, and the conspicuous absence of meaning in'mantric' sayings-all of which point to a radical 'other' truth.

Additional Indian philosophical traditions and practices are incorporated to shed light on significant ways of understanding words and sounds, revealing an unexpected vision of reality.

The book also includes a comprehensive and insightful foreword by the esteemed Prof. S. Panneerselvam, General Secretary of the Indian Philosophical Congress and the Chennai Philosophical Forum, and former Professor & Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Madras, Chennai. His foreword addresses key aspects of both Indian and Western philosophical traditions, providing valuable context for the reader.

About the Author:

MIKAEL STAMM was born in Denmark in 1957. He completed his B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, an M.A. in Indian Philosophy at the University of Madras, and a Doctorate in Philosophy and Religion at Assumption University in Bangkok. He is currently working at DTU in Copenhagen.

He has previously authored Sacred Sound and Language in Classical Śaiva Siddhānta, a scholarly work on South Indian Śaivism.