Unconditional Equality : Gandhi's Religion of Resistance /

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

"Unconditional Equality' examines 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 bei...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Skaria, Ajay (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gandhi, > Mahatma, > 1869-1948.
Gandhi, > Mahatma, > 1869-1948 > Philosophy.
Statesmen.
Politics and government.
Philosophy.
Passive resistance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology of Religion.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Hommes d'État > Inde > Biographies.
Resistance passive > Inde > Histoire.
Statesmen > India > Biography.
Passive resistance > India > History.
India.
Inde > Politique et gouvernement > 1919-1947.
India > Politics and government > 1919-1947.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Unconditional Equality' examines 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 quality centred 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 but also because those included lose the power to love
Descripción Física:1 online resource (384 pages).
ISBN:9781452949796

Ejemplares similares