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Gandhi after 9/11: Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability

Autor Douglas Allen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 mar 2019
Douglas Allen argues that Gandhi offers to us the most profound and influential theory, philosophy, and engaged practices of ahimsa or nonviolence. Embracing Gandhi's insightful critiques of modernity, the book sees his approach as a creative and challenging catalyst to rethink our positions today. We live in a post-9/11 world that is defined by widespread physical, psychological, economic, political, cultural, religious, technological, and environmental violence and that is increasingly unsustainable. The author's central claim is Gandhi, when selectively appropriated and creatively reformulated and applied, is essential for formulating new positions that are more nonviolent and more sustainable. These provide resources and hope for dealing with our contemporary crises. The author analyzes what a Gandhi-informed, valuable but humanly limited swaraj technology looks like and what a Gandhi-informed, more egalitarian, interconnected, bottom-up, decentralized world of globalization looks like. The book focuses on key themes in Gandhi's thought, such as violence and nonviolence, Absolute Truth and relative truth, ethical and spiritual living. Challenging us to consider nonviolent, moral, and truthful transformative alternatives today, the author moves through essays on Gandhi in the age of technology; Gandhi after 9/11 and 26/11 terrorism; Gandhi's controversial views on the Bhagavad-Gita and Hind Swaraj; Gandhi and Vedanta; Gandhi on socialism; Gandhi and marginality, caste, class, race, and oppressed others.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199491490
ISBN-10: 0199491496
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 148 x 225 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: OUP INDIA
Colecția OUP India
Locul publicării:Delhi, India

Recenzii

This thought-provoking book, full of nuanced understanding of Gandhi's philosophy and practice, makes an exce llent contribution to the relevance of Gandhi for the 21st century. The book succeeds in providing the argument that Gandhi offers to us the most profound and infl uential theory, philosophy, and eng aged practices of ahimsa or non- violence to deal with the contemporary crisis of marginality, as well as other multifarious challenges that confront humanity today. In many ways, regardless of one's own personal take on the man or the doctrine, this book is a fascinating read because it brings together effectively for the reader how a Gandhi-informed, non-violent response is creative sustainable, and relevant today. Overall, this outstanding collection will be valuable to Gandhian scholars, students, and activists.

Notă biografică

Douglas Allen is Professor and former Chairperson of Philosophy at the University of Maine, U.S.A. He served as President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and is Series Editor of Lexington's Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion. Author and editor of 15 books and 150 book chapters and scholarly journal articles, he has been awarded Fulbright and Smithsonian grants to India. His Gandhi books include Comparative Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror; The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century; and Mahatma Gandhi. Allen has been a peace and justice scholar-activist, starting with the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement; he has been deeply involved in many of the struggles central to Gandhi after 9/11. He had the honor of addressing the General Assembly on the United Nations International Day of Nonviolence, 2 October 2017. He may be reached at dallen@maine.edu.