Common Cause - Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955

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Summary

Illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual discipline.

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• Authors: Leela Gandhi, Gandhi Leela
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2014
• EAN: 9780226019871
• ISBN: 978-0-226-01987-1
• No. of pages: 256
• 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 / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Political ideologies and movements, National liberation and independence