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This definitive edition of the 1959 classic text includes a major new introduction by a leading political theorist, James Tully.
List of contents
Acknowledgments; Chronology; The works of Richard Bartlett Gregg; Editor's introduction: integral nonviolence; Bibliography; Preface to the 1934 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg; Foreword to a Discipline for Nonviolence 1941 Mohandas Gandhi; Foreword to the 1944 edition Rufus Matthew Jones; Preface to the 1944 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg; Foreword to the 1959 edition Martin Luther King, Jr; Preface to the 1959 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg; Preface to the 1960 Indian publication of the 1959 edition Richard Bartlett Gregg; 1. Modern examples of nonviolent resistance; 2. Moral Jiu-Jitsu; 3. What happens; 4. Utilizing emotional energy; 5. How is mass nonviolence possible?; 6. The working of mass nonviolent resistance; 7. An effective substitute for war; 8. The class struggle and nonviolent resistance; 9. Nonviolence and the state; 10. Persuasion; 11. The need for training; 12. Training; Notes by chapter; Index.
About the author
James Tully is Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, Canada. His works include An Approach to Political Philosophy: Locke in Contexts (Cambridge, 1993), Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity (Cambridge, 1995), Public Philosophy in a New Key, 2 volumes (Cambridge, 2008), On Global Citizenship: James Tully in Dialogue (2014), and Nichols and Singh, editors., Freedom and Democracy in an Imperial Context: Dialogue with James Tully (2014). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Emeritus Fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and recipient of both the Killam Prize in the Humanities (2012) and the C. B. MacPherson Prize for Public Philosophy in a New Key. He was co-editor of the Cambridge University Press 'Ideas in Context Series' for twenty years.
Summary
Richard Bartlett Gregg's The Power of Nonviolence (1959) is an influential defence of nonviolence as a viable alternative to armed struggle. This definitive new edition includes an introduction by leading political theorist, James Tully that situates the work in its historical contexts and shows how it is still relevant today.
