Gandhi after 9/11: creative nonviolence and sustainability

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 to...

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1. Verfasser: Allen, Douglas 1941- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi, India Oxford University Press 2019
Ausgabe:First edition
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:viii, 277 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9780199491490
0199491496

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