Gandhis Printing Press - Experiments in Slow Reading

Informationen zum Autor Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand! Johannesburg. Klappentext When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy! he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper! Indian Opinion. In Gandhi's Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Zusammenfassung When Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi’s Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma.

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• Authors: Isabel Hofmeyr, Hofmeyr Isabel
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2013
• EAN: 9780674072794
• ISBN: 978-0-674-07279-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Biography: literary, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, India, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Republic of South Africa, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Asian History, African History, c 1900 to c 1909, Publishing industry and journalism, Publishing industry & book trade, HISTORY / Asia / South / General