1st Edition

Gandhi Anti-Biography of a Great Soul

By Michaël de Saint-Chëron Copyright 2018
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view--- and Jewish too perhaps---- of a man and times so familiar to us and yet which acquires another dimension as it is represented through another culture. There are eloquent accounts in this book of philosophers like Ramakrishna and Vivekananda who influenced Gandhi’s thought and life. Rather... Read more

Prologue: Gandhi and India



1. The Anti-Biography of a Great Soul



2. How Does One Make a Mohandas Gandhi?



3. Gandhi Discovers the Bhagavad Gita



4. An Indian Lawyer Confronts Apartheid



5. The Non-Violent Revolution



6. The Path to Renunciation



7. Satyagraha in Deed and in Reality



8. The Gandhi-Tolstoy Correspondence



9. Gandhi returns to India



10. Between Non-Violence and Anti-Zionism



11. India and Gandhi viewed by Romain Rolland and André Malraux



12. Gandhi’s Heritage Today



13. Beyond Gandhi: Hinduism-Judaism— A Root-to-Root Conversation

Biography



Michaël de Saint-Chëron is the author of several books and specializes in Jewish Theology and the ties with Hinduism and Buddhism. He has taught at the Sorbonne and the Elie Wiesel University in Paris and in two Taiwan universities. His recent publications include Evil and Exile with Elie Wiesel, Notre Dame University Press, 2000 and Conversations with Emmanuel Levinas, Duquesne University Press, 2010.