The Gandhian Moment / Ramin Jahanbegloo.
Jahanbegloo, Ramin, author.
2013
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Title The Gandhian Moment / Ramin Jahanbegloo.
Author Jahanbegloo, Ramin, author.
ISBN 9780674074859
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674074859
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (208 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674074859 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 954.035092
Summary Gandhi is revered as a historic leader, the father of Indian independence, and the inspiration for nonviolent protest around the world. But the importance of these practical achievements has obscured Gandhi's stature as an extraordinarily innovative political thinker. Ramin Jahanbegloo presents Gandhi the political theorist-the intellectual founder of a system predicated on the power of nonviolence to challenge state sovereignty and domination. A philosopher and an activist in his own right, Jahanbegloo guides us through Gandhi's core ideas, shows how they shaped political protest from 1960s America to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond, and calls for their use today by Muslims demanding change. Gandhi challenged mainstream political ideas most forcefully on sovereignty. He argued that state power is not legitimate simply when it commands general support or because it protects us from anarchy. Instead, legitimacy depends on the consent of dutiful citizens willing to challenge the state nonviolently when it acts immorally. The culmination of the inner struggle to recognize one's duty to act, Jahanbegloo says, is the ultimate "Gandhian moment." Gandhi's ideas have motivated such famous figures as Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama. As Jahanbegloo demonstrates, they also inspired the unheralded Muslim activists Abul Kalam Azad and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, whose work for Indian independence answers those today who doubt the viability of nonviolent Islamic protest. The book is a powerful reminder of Gandhi's enduring political relevance and a pioneering account of his extraordinary intellectual achievements.
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E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Chapter one. Introduction
Chapter two. Principles of Gandhian Politics
Chapter three. The Critique of Modern Civilization
Chapter four. Gandhi's Public Philosophy. Linking the moral with the political
Chapter five. Gandhi's Reception in India
Chapter seven. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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