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

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.

Product details

• Authors: Leela Gandhi, Gandhi Leela
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.03.2014
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780226019871
• ISBN: 978-0-226-01987-1
• Pages: 256
• Subjects: Rebellion, Power, Common, Empire, History, Politics, Ethics, Violence, Political Ideologies, Postcolonialism, Democracy, Political Science, War, Authority, Repression, Gandhi, Resistance, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Community, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Philosophy, transnational, Nonfiction, morality, India, Military, Perfectionism, discipline, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Control, self fashioning, Social & political philosophy, Race, social and political philosophy, Racism, Political structures: democracy, Government, Fascism, imperialism, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, Political ideologies and movements, National liberation and independence, Mutiny, mundane, Ordinary, anticolonialism, abnegation