The common cause : postcolonial ethics and the practice of democracy, 1900-1955 /

This is an ethical history of democracy in the first half of the 20th century. In this era, Gandhi argues, the concept of ethics had obtained a ubiquitous application. No longer the denominator for right and wrong or good and bad behaviour, merely, it came to designate all projects of disciplined se...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gandhi, Leela, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Temas:
Democracy > Moral and ethical aspects.
Postcolonialism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Postcolonialism > India.
Anti-imperialist movements > India.
Postcolonialisme > Aspect moral.
Postcolonialisme > Inde.
Anti-impérialisme > Inde.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Anti-imperialist movements
Democracy > Moral and ethical aspects
Postcolonialism
India
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: moral imperfection: an ethics for democracy
  • After virtue: the strange case of belle époque socialist antimaterialism
  • On descent: stories from the gurus of modern India
  • Elementary virtues: Great War and the crisis of European man
  • Inconsequence: some little-known mutinies around 1946
  • Epilogue: paths of ahimsaic historiography.

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