"The endless digressions and self-interruptions of this study, as it meanders from Kant to Krishna, Schiller to Sati, belong, among other places, to a politically directionless Left. [This book is a] garrulous hotch-potch [filled with] . . . overstuffed, excessively elliptical prose. . . . The ellipses, the heavy-handed jargon, the cavalier assumption that you know what she means, or that if you don't she doesn't much care, are as much the overcodings of an academic coterie as a smack in the face for conventional scholarship."--Terry Eagleton, in THE LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS