Conquest of Violence (eBook)

The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict. With a new epilogue by the author

Joan Valerie Bondurant (Autor)

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2020
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21804-5 (ISBN)

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When Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 by an assassin's bullet, the most potent legacy he left to the world was the technique of satyagraha (literally, holding on to the Truth). His "e;experiments with Truth"e; were far from complete at the time of his death, but he had developed a new technique for effecting social and political change through the constructive conduct of conflict: Gandhian satyagraha had become eminently more than "e;passive resistance"e; or "e;civil disobedience."e; By relating what Gandhi said to what he did and by examining instances of satyagraha led by others, this book abstracts from the Indian experiments those essential elements that constitute the Gandhian technique. It explores, in terms familiar to the Western reader, its distinguishing characteristics and its far-reaching implications for social and political philosophy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: agreement • Ahimsa • A History of Political Theory • Ahmedabad • Amendment • Anarchism • Antithesis • Aparigraha • arbitration • Asceticism • Asteya • Atheism • authoritarianism • Bardoli Satyagraha • Bhagavad Gita • boycott • brahmacharya • bread-labor • Carlyle, Thomas • celibacy • Christianity • Civil disobedience • civil resistance • communism • Conscience • conscientious objector • Consideration • Constitutionalism • constructive program • Consummation • Criticism • Death • Democracy • Demonstrations • Dharma • Dharna • Dialectic • disobedience • Doctrine • economic equality • ethics • Extremism • freedom • Gandhian dialectic • Gandhian revolution • Gandhism • Government of India • Harijan • Hartal • Hegel • Hindu • Hinduism • Historicism • idealism • Ideology • in anarchism • Indian Philosophy • Injury • Institution • Islam • jail-going • Jawaharlal Nehru • Khadi • Khudai Khidmatgar • Leadership • Legislation • Mahabharata • Mahadev Desai • Mahatma Gandhi • Marxism • masses • mass meetings • Metaphysics • Morality • Motilal Nehru • newspaper • Non-Cooperation Movement • Non-possession • Nonviolence • nonviolent resistance • on the dialectic • Ontology • organismic theory • Oxford University Press • Parsi • Pathans • Philosopher • Philosophy • Plato • Political Freedom • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political structure • Political System • Politician • Politics • Power • Precept • Protest • Purdah • Pyarelal • Quaker method • Quran • Rama Raj • Reactionary • Reform Movement • Religion • Renunciation • Salt March • Sanskrit • Sarabhai, Ambalal • Sarvodaya • Satyagraha • seclusion • Self-Sufficiency • Sidney Hook • Sitdown strike • Social Action • Social Structure • Sociology • State (polity) • Structuring • Subjectivity • Suffering • Suggestion • Swadeshi movement • Tagore, Rabindranath • Talcott Parsons • Tapas (Sanskrit) • Tax • theory • Thought • untouchability • Vallabhbhai Patel • Writing • Yoga • Young India
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21804-8 / 0691218048
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21804-5 / 9780691218045