Postmodern Gandhi and Other Essays : Gandhi in the World and at Home
Lloyd I. Rudolph
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Chicago, IL : : University of Chicago Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (271 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Preface; Part One; 1 Postmodern Gandhi; 2 The Road Not Taken: The Modernist Roots of Partition; 3 Gandhi in the Mind of America; 4 The Coffee House and the Ashram Revisited: How Gandhi Democratized Habermas' Public Sphere; Part Two; 5 The Fear of Cowardice; 6 Gandhi and the New Courage; 7 Self-Control and Political Potency; 8 This-Worldly Asceticism and Political Modernization; Index. - Gandhi, with his loincloth and walking stick, seems an unlikely advocate of postmodernism. But in Postmodern Gandhi, Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph portray him as just that in eight thought-provoking essays that aim to correct the common association of Gandhi with traditionalism. Combining core sections of their influential book Gandhi: The Traditional Roots of Charisma with substantial new material, the Rudolphs reveal here that Gandhi was able to revitalize tradition while simultaneously breaking with some of its entrenched values and practices. Exploring his i
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| ISBN | 0226731235. - 0226731243. - 9780226731230. - 9780226731247
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