1st Edition

Between Ethics and Politics New Essays on Gandhi

Edited By Eva Pföstl Copyright 2014
196 Pages
by Routledge India

196 Pages
by Routledge India

196 Pages
by Routledge India

Is it possible to build an authentically democratic system in politics without concrete ethical foundations? Addressing this question in the wake of the contemporary crisis in democracy worldwide, the volume re-evaluates Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s key thoughts. It foregrounds their relevance to the ongoing struggles that attempt to reconcile the apparently dissimilar orientations of politics... Read more

Foreword Akeel Bilgrami. Introduction Eva Pföstl. 1. The Struggle of Right against Might: An Introduction to the Figure of Mahatma Gandhi Ugo Caruso 2. Some Reflections on Gandhi: Between Ethics and Politics Giuliano Pontara 3. Negating Violence: The Gandhi Way Neera Chandhoke 4. The Parallel Worlds of the Moral and the Aesthetic: Gandhi and Tagore Ranabir Samaddar 5. Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru Sangita Mallik 6. M. K. Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar: Irreconcilable Differences Aakash Singh Rathore.

Biography

Eva Pföstl is Scientific Director, Law Department, Istituto di Studi Politici ‘S. Pio V’, Rome.