Revolution and Non-Violence in Tolstoy, Gandhi, and Mandela

Explores the writings and revolutionary thought of three connected figures--Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela--on the subject of violence and non-violence and the way they resisted revolutionary thinking in favour of an alternative model of civic transformation.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Gandhi's Bitter Fortnight


• 2: Gandhi's Marvellous Revolution


• 3: Legacies of Nelson Mandela


• Conclusion: Tolstoy and Coetzee

About the author

Imraan Coovadia is a writer and the director of the writing programme at the University of Cape Town. He has written a number of novels, essays, and critical works on authors from Adam Smith and George Eliot to V.S. Naipaul and Vladimir Nabokov.

Summary

Explores the writings and revolutionary thought of three connected figures--Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Nelson Mandela--on the subject of violence and non-violence and the way they resisted revolutionary thinking in favour of an alternative model of civic transformation.

Product details

• Authors: Imraan Coovadia, Imraan (Director of the Writing Programm Coovadia, Coovadia Imraan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2020
• EAN: 9780198863694
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886369-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Political activism, Violence in society, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Violence and abuse in society, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Political activism / Political engagement