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Gandhi's Ascetic Activism
More than six decades after his death, Mohandas Gandhi continues to inspire those who seek political and social liberation through nonviolent means. Uniquely, Gandhi placed celibacy and other renunciatory disciplines at the center of his nonviolent political strategy, conducting original experiments with their possibilities to gain practical, moral, and even miraculous powers for social change. Gandhi's abstinence in marriage, eccentric views on sexuality, and odd ways of including his female associates in his practices continue to cause ambivalence among scholars and students. Through a comprehensive study of Gandhi's own words, select Indian religious texts and myths that he used, and the historical and cultural context of his activism, Veena R. Howard shows how Gandhi's ascetic disciplines helped him mobilize millions. She explores Gandhi's creative use of renunciation in challenging established paradigms of confrontational politics, passive asceticism, and oppressive social customs. Howard's book sheds new light on the creative possibilities Gandhi discovered in combining personal renunciation, sacrifice, ritual, and myth for modern day social action.
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Unconditional Equality
Unconditional Equalityexamines Mahatma Gandhi's critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion. It reconceives satyagraha (passive resistance) as a politics that strives for the absolute equality of all beings. Liberal traditions usually affirm an abstract equality centered on some form of autonomy, the Kantian term for the everyday sovereignty that rational beings exercise by granting themselves universal law. But for Gandhi, such equality is an \"equality of sword\"-profoundly violent not only because it excludes those presumed to lack reason (such as animals or the colonized) but also because those included lose the power to love (which requires the surrender of autonomy or, more broadly, sovereignty).
Gandhi professes instead a politics organized around dharma, or religion. For him, there can be \"no politics without religion.\" This religion involves self-surrender, a freely offered surrender of autonomy and everyday sovereignty. For Gandhi, the \"religion that stays in all religions\" is satyagraha-theagraha(insistence) on or ofsatya(being or truth).
Ajay Skaria argues that, conceptually, satyagraha insists on equality without exception of all humans, animals, and things. This cannot be understood in terms of sovereignty: it must be an equality of the minor.
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Gandhi
Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Gandhi et sa pensée en moins d'une heure!
Symbole de l'indépendance indienne, Gandhi est mondialement connu pour ses engagements politiques, civiques et spirituels. Apôtre de la non-violence, cet avocat de formation a fait ses débuts en Afrique du Sud, où il a opposé une désobéissance civile aux multiples discriminations dont étaient victimes ses compatriotes, avant de s'engager dans la lutte contre la domination britannique en Inde. Jouissant d'une popularité internationale, Gandhi reste toutefois un être complexe et autoritaire, dont la grande force morale lui a valu l'image d'un homme sage et juste. Ce livre vous permettra d'en savoir plus sur:
• La vie de Gandhi
• Le contexte de l'époque
• Les temps forts de sa vie
• Les répercussions de ses actions Le mot de l'éditeur:
« Dans ce numéro de la collection « 50MINUTES Grandes Personnalités », Mélanie Mettra nous fait découvrir en une trentaine de pages la vie de cet homme adulé dans le monde entier pour sa sagesse et sa volonté de fer. Souvent présenté comme un être sage et juste, l'auteure n'hésite pas à nous montrer une autre facette de l'homme, celle d'un être pétri d'ambiguïtés, tiraillé entre ses désirs spirituels et matériels. »
Stéphanie Dagrain À PROPOS DE LA SÉRIE 50MINUTES | Grandes Personnalités
La série « Grandes Personnalités » de la collection « 50MINUTES » présente plus de cinquante hommes et femmes qui ont marqué l'histoire d'une manière ou d'une autre. Chaque livre a été pensé pour les lecteurs curieux qui veulent faire le tour d'un sujet précis, tout en allant à l'essentiel, et ce en moins d'une heure. Nos auteurs combinent les faits historiques, les analyses et les nouvelles perspectives pour rendre accessibles des siècles d'histoire.
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Atlantic Gandhi : the Mahatma overseas
Atlantic Gandhi takes Mahatma Gandhi out of the national space of India and examines him as an ocean-faring diasporic cosmopolitan whose life reverberates with the revolutionary currents of the Atlantic rim.
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Transnational roots of the civil rights movement
How did African Americans gain the ability to apply Gandhian nonviolence during the civil rights movement? Responses generally focus on Martin Luther King’s “pilgrimage to nonviolence” or favorable social contexts and processes. This book, in contrast, highlights the role of collective learning in the Gandhian repertoire’s transnational diffusion. Collective learning shaped the invention of the Gandhian repertoire in South Africa and India as well as its transnational diffusion to the United States. In the 1920s, African Americans and their allies responded to Gandhi’s ideas and practices by reproducing stereotypes. Meaningful collective learning started with translation of the Gandhian repertoire in the 1930s and small-scale experimentation in the early 1940s. After surviving the doldrums of the McCarthy era, full implementation of the Gandhian repertoire finally occurred during the civil rights movement between 1955 and 1965. This book goes beyond existing scholarship by contributing deeper and finer insights on how transnational diffusion between social movements actually works. It highlights the contemporary relevance of Gandhian nonviolence and its successful journey across borders.
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