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The Common Cause (Paperback)
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The Common Cause (Paperback)
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Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is
a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela
Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a
transnational history of democracy in the first half of the
twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of
disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of
perfectionism across imperialism, fascism, and liberalism-an ethic
that excluded the ordinary and unexceptional. But she also
illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of
anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and
abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military
to Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual discipline. Reframing the way we
think about some of the most consequential political events of the
era, Gandhi presents moral imperfectionism as the lost tradition of
global democratic thought and offers it to us as a key to
democracy's future. In doing so, she defends democracy as a shared
art of living on the other side of perfection and mounts a
postcolonial appeal for an ethics of becoming common.
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