Gandhi after 9/11
Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability
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ISBN:
9780199491490
Publication date:
10/01/2019
Hardback
288 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 950.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780199491490
Publication date:
10/01/2019
Hardback
288 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Douglas Allen
Douglas Allen’s central claim is Gandhi, when selectively appropriated and creatively reformulated and applied, is essential for formulating new positions and ideas that are more nonviolent and more sustainable.
Rights: World Rights
Douglas Allen
Description
9/11 marked the beginning of a century that is defined by widespread violence. Every other day seems to be a furthering of the already catastrophic present towards a more disastrous tomorrow. With climate change looming over us, frequent economic instability, religious wars, and relentless political mayhem, life for what we have made of it seems more and more unsustainable. Douglas Allen insists that we look to Gandhi, if only selectively and creatively, in order to move towards a nonviolent and sustainable future.
Is a Gandhi-informed swaraj technology, valuable but humanly limited, possible? What would a Gandhian world—a more egalitarian, interconnected, decentralized—of globalization look like? Focusing on key themes in Gandhi’s thinking such as violence and nonviolence, absolute truth and relative truth, ethical and spiritual living, and his critique of modernity, the book compels us to rethink our positions today.
About the Author
Douglas Allen is professor and former chairperson of philosophy at the University of Maine, USA.
Douglas Allen
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction: The Relevance of Gandhi for
India and the Contemporary World
2 Gandhian Philosophy: Theoretical Basis with
Primacy of Practice
3 Is Gandhi a Vedantist?
4 How Can Gandhi Interpret His Favorite
Bhagavad-Gita as a Gospel of Nonviolence?
5 Personal Reflections on Reading Hind Swaraj
and Indian Reactions
6 Is Gandhi’s Approach to Technology
Irrelevant in the Modern Age of Technology?
7 Terrorism and Violence: Gandhi after 9/11 in the USA and 26/11 in India
8 Gandhi and Socialism
9 Rewriting Marginality: Minority Literature,
Hermeneutical Insights, and Gandhian Challenges
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Douglas Allen
Douglas Allen
Description
9/11 marked the beginning of a century that is defined by widespread violence. Every other day seems to be a furthering of the already catastrophic present towards a more disastrous tomorrow. With climate change looming over us, frequent economic instability, religious wars, and relentless political mayhem, life for what we have made of it seems more and more unsustainable. Douglas Allen insists that we look to Gandhi, if only selectively and creatively, in order to move towards a nonviolent and sustainable future.
Is a Gandhi-informed swaraj technology, valuable but humanly limited, possible? What would a Gandhian world—a more egalitarian, interconnected, decentralized—of globalization look like? Focusing on key themes in Gandhi’s thinking such as violence and nonviolence, absolute truth and relative truth, ethical and spiritual living, and his critique of modernity, the book compels us to rethink our positions today.
About the Author
Douglas Allen is professor and former chairperson of philosophy at the University of Maine, USA.
Read MoreTable of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction: The Relevance of Gandhi for
India and the Contemporary World
2 Gandhian Philosophy: Theoretical Basis with
Primacy of Practice
3 Is Gandhi a Vedantist?
4 How Can Gandhi Interpret His Favorite
Bhagavad-Gita as a Gospel of Nonviolence?
5 Personal Reflections on Reading Hind Swaraj
and Indian Reactions
6 Is Gandhi’s Approach to Technology
Irrelevant in the Modern Age of Technology?
7 Terrorism and Violence: Gandhi after 9/11 in the USA and 26/11 in India
8 Gandhi and Socialism
9 Rewriting Marginality: Minority Literature,
Hermeneutical Insights, and Gandhian Challenges
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author
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