Gandhi’s Dilemma: Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power PDF

Manfred B. Steger ist Professor für Soziologie an der University of Hawai’i at Mānoa und Global Professorial Fellow am Institute of Culture and Society der Western Sydney University. Er war als akademischer Berater zum Thema Globalisierung für das US-Außenministerium und als Berater der PBS-Fernsehserie Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism tätig. Er ist Autor von achtundzwanzig Büchern über Globalisierung und Gesellschaftstheorie, darunter der Bestseller „Globalization: A Very Short Introduction“, 5. Aufl. (Oxford UP 2020); das preisgekrönte Globalisms: Facing the Populist Challenge, 5. Aufl. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020); The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008) und zuletzt Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (mit Paul James; Cambridge University Press, 2019). ).

Gandhi’s Dilemma: Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power pdf von Manfred Steger

Throughout his long career as a political thinker and activist, Mahatma Gandhi encountered the dilemma of either remaining faithful to his nonviolent principles and risking the failure of the Indian nationalist movement, or focusing on the seizure of political power at the expense of his moral message. Putting forward his vision of a "nonviolent nationalism," Gandhi argued that Indian self-rule could be achieved without sacrificing the universalist imperatives of his nonviolent philosophy. Conceived as a study in the history of political thought, this book examines the origins, meaning, and unfolding of Gandhi s dilemma as it played itself out in both theory and political practice. This discussion is inextricably linked to significant and timely issues that are critical for the study of nationalism, for Gandhi s vision raises the important question of whether it is indeed possible to construct a benign type of nationalism that is rooted in neither physical nor conceptual forms of violence.