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Even today, six decades after his assassination in January 1948,
Mahatma Gandhi is still revered as the father of the Indian nation.
His intellectual and moral legacy encapsulated in works such as
Hind Swaraj as well as the example of his life and politics serve
as an inspiration to human rights and peace movements, political
activists, and students in classroom discussions throughout the
world. This book, comprised of essays by renowned experts in the
fields of Indian history and philosophy, traces Gandhi's
extraordinary story. The first part of the book, the biography,
explores his transformation from a small-town lawyer during his
early life in South Africa into a skilled political activist and
leader of civil resistance in India. The second part is devoted to
Gandhi's key writings and his thinking on a broad range of topics,
including religion, conflict, politics, and social relations. The
final part reflects on Gandhi's image how he has been portrayed in
literature and film and on his legacy in India, the West, and
beyond."
Often considered the most admired human being of the twentieth
century, Mahatma Gandhi was and remains controversial. Among the
leading Gandhi scholars in the world, the authors of the timely
studies in this volume present numerous ways in which Gandhi's
thought and action-oriented approach are significant, relevant, and
urgently needed for addressing the major problems and concerns of
the twenty-first century. Such problems and concerns include issues
of violence and nonviolence, war and peace, religion and religious
conflict and dialogue, terrorism, ethics, civil disobedience,
injustice, modernism and postmodernism, forms of oppression and
exploitation, and environmental destruction. These creative,
diverse studies offer a radical critique of the dominant
characteristics and priorities of modern Western civilization and
the contemporary world. They offer positive alternatives by using
Gandhi, in creative and innovative ways, to focus on nonviolence,
peace with justice, tolerance and mutual respect, compassion and
loving kindness, cooperative relations and the realization of our
interconnectedness and unity, meaningful action-oriented engagement
of dialogue, resistance, and working for new sustainable ways of
being human and creating new societies. This volume is appropriate
for the general reader and the Gandhi specialist. It will be of
interest for readers in philosophy, religion, political science,
history, cultural studies, peace studies, and many other fields.
Throughout this book, readers will experience a strong sense of the
philosophical and practical urgency and significance of Gandhi's
thought and action for the contemporary world.
Often considered the most admired human being of the twentieth
century, Mahatma Gandhi was and remains controversial. Among the
leading Gandhi scholars in the world, the authors of the timely
studies in this volume present numerous ways in which Gandhi's
thought and action-oriented approach are significant, relevant, and
urgently needed for addressing the major problems and concerns of
the twenty-first century. Such problems and concerns include issues
of violence and nonviolence, war and peace, religion and religious
conflict and dialogue, terrorism, ethics, civil disobedience,
injustice, modernism and postmodernism, forms of oppression and
exploitation, and environmental destruction. These creative,
diverse studies offer a radical critique of the dominant
characteristics and priorities of modern Western civilization and
the contemporary world. They offer positive alternatives by using
Gandhi, in creative and innovative ways, to focus on nonviolence,
peace with justice, tolerance and mutual respect, compassion and
loving kindness, cooperative relations and the realization of our
interconnectedness and unity, meaningful action-oriented engagement
of dialogue, resistance, and working for new sustainable ways of
being human and creating new societies. This volume is appropriate
for the general reader and the Gandhi specialist. It will be of
interest for readers in philosophy, religion, political science,
history, cultural studies, peace studies, and many other fields.
Throughout this book, readers will experience a strong sense of the
philosophical and practical urgency and significance of Gandhi's
thought and action for the contemporary world.
This Lexington Books edition of Comparative Political Philosophy
brings back into print a volume that was one of the first to move
beyond a Eurocentric bias in the study of political philosophy and
provide a well-balanced critique of the perilous transition from
tradition to modernity. The book is evidence of the benefits to be
reaped from comparison, from a reading of Aristotle together with
the Arthashastra, of Mahatma Gandhi with Eric Voegelin, of Voltaire
with Confucius. Focusing on key texts from Chinese, Indian, Western
and Islamic political philosophy, chapter authors both describe the
very different contexts from which philosophic traditions arose and
discover basic tenets they have in common. In a new introduction,
editors Anthony J. Parel and Ronald C. Keith discuss the changes in
political contexts since the book's first publication, and they
underscore the increasing importance of the comparative approach.
Even today, six decades after his assassination in January 1948,
Mahatma Gandhi is still revered as the father of the Indian nation.
His intellectual and moral legacy encapsulated in works such as
Hind Swaraj as well as the example of his life and politics serve
as an inspiration to human rights and peace movements, political
activists, and students in classroom discussions throughout the
world. This book, comprised of essays by renowned experts in the
fields of Indian history and philosophy, traces Gandhi's
extraordinary story. The first part of the book, the biography,
explores his transformation from a small-town lawyer during his
early life in South Africa into a skilled political activist and
leader of civil resistance in India. The second part is devoted to
Gandhi's key writings and his thinking on a broad range of topics,
including religion, conflict, politics, and social relations. The
final part reflects on Gandhi's image how he has been portrayed in
literature and film and on his legacy in India, the West, and
beyond.
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