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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 comprehensive Gandhi reader provides an essential new
reference for scholars and students of his life and thought. It is
the only text available that presents Gandhi's own writings,
including excerpts from three of his books An Autobiography: The
Story of My Experiments with Truth, Satyagraha in South Africa,
Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule)-a major pamphlet, Constructive
Programme: Its Meaning and Place, and many journal articles and
letters along with a biographical sketch of his life in historical
context and recent essays by highly regarded scholars. The writers
of these essays hailing from the United States, Canada, Great
Britain and India, with academic credentials in several different
disciplines examine his nonviolent campaigns, his development of
programs to unify India, and his impact on the world in the second
half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the
twenty-first. Gandhi's Experiments with Truth provides an
unparalleled range of scholarly material and perspectives on this
enduring philosopher, peace activist, and spiritual guide."
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