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Gandhi in Political Theory - Truth, Law and Experiment (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Gandhi in Political Theory - Truth, Law and Experiment (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Can Gandhi be considered a systematic thinker? While the
significance of Gandhi's thought and life to our times is
undeniable it is widely assumed that he did not serve any
discipline and cannot be considered a systematic thinker. Despite
an overwhelming body of scholarship and literature on his life and
thought the presuppositions of Gandhi's experiments, the systematic
nature of his intervention in modern political theory and his
method have not previously received sustained attention. Addressing
this lacuna, the book contends that Gandhi's critique of modern
civilization, the presuppositions of post-Enlightenment political
theory and their epistemological and metaphysical foundations is
both comprehensive and systematic. Gandhi's experiments with truth
in the political arena during the Indian Independence movement are
studied from the point of view of his conscious engagement with
method and theory rather than merely as a personal creed, spiritual
position or moral commitment. The author shows how Gandhi's
experiments are illustrative of his theoretical position, and how
they form the basis of his opposition to the foundations of modern
western political theory and the presuppositions of the modern
nation state besides envisioning the foundations of an alternative
modernity for India, and by its example, for the world.
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