Gandhian Moment

Informationen zum Autor Ramin Jahanbegloo is Associate Professor and Noor–York Chair in Islamic Studies at York University, Toronto. Klappentext The father of Indian independence! Gandhi was also a political theorist who challenged mainstream ideas. Sovereignty! he said! depends on the consent of citizens willing to challenge the state nonviolently when it acts immorally. The culmination of the inner struggle to recognize one's duty to act is the ultimate "Gandhian moment." Zusammenfassung The father of Indian independence, Gandhi was also a political theorist who challenged mainstream ideas. Sovereignty, he said, depends on the consent of citizens willing to challenge the state nonviolently when it acts immorally. The culmination of the inner struggle to recognize one’s duty to act is the ultimate “Gandhian moment.”

Product details

• Authors: Ramin Jahanbegloo, Jahanbegloo Ramin
• Assisted by: the Dalai Lama (Foreword)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2013
• EAN: 9780674065956
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06595-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Ideologies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, India, Political activism, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Asian History, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements, HISTORY / Asia / South / General