Gandhi’s Dilemma: Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power pdf

Manfred B. Steger es profesor de sociología en la Universidad de Hawái en Manoa y miembro de la cátedra global en el Instituto de Cultura y Sociedad de la Universidad de Western Sydney. Se ha desempeñado como consultor académico sobre globalización para el Departamento de Estado de EE. UU. y como asesor de la serie de televisión de PBS, Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism. Es autor de veintiocho libros sobre globalización y teoría social, incluido el éxito de ventas Globalization: A Very Short Introduction, 5th ed. (Oxford UP 2020); los galardonados globalismos: frente al desafío populista, 5.ª ed. (Rowman y Littlefield, 2020); The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror (Oxford University Press, 2008) y, más recientemente, Globalization Matters: Engaging the Global in Unsettled Times (con Paul James; Cambridge University Press, 2019 ).

Gandhi’s Dilemma: Nonviolent Principles and Nationalist Power pdf por 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.