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Unconditional equality : Gandhi's religion of resistance / Ajay Skaria.
Van Pelt Library DS481.G3 S546 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skaria, Ajay, author.
- Series:
- Cultural Critique Books
- A cultural critique book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948--Philosophy.
- Gandhi.
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
- Passive resistance--India--History.
- Passive resistance.
- Statesmen--India--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- History.
- Philosophy.
- India.
- India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 390 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Unconditional Equality examines Mahatma Gandhi's critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality and his practice of freedom and equality organized around religion. It reconceives satyagraha (passive resistance) as a politics that strives for the absolute equality of all beings. Liberal traditions usually affirm an abstract equality centered on a form of autonomy, the Kantian term for the everyday sovereignty that rational beings exercise by granting themselves universal law. But for Gandhi, such equality is an "equality of sword"-profoundly violent not only because it excludes those presumed to lack reason (such as animals or the colonized) but also because those included lose the power to love (which requires the surrender of autonomy or, more broadly, sovereignty). Ajay Skaria argues that, conceptually, satyagraha insists on equality without exception of all humans, animals, and things. This cannot be understood in terms of sovereignty: it must be an equality of the minor. This equality is simultaneously a resistance: satyagrahis (practitioners) must resist all that obscures absolute equality and do so passively, without sovereignty and in the spirit of absolute equality. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Surrender without subordination
- Before Satyagraha
- Stumbling on theological secularism
- Between two and three
- The warrior's sovereign gift
- The aneconomies of Satyagraha
- The impossible gift of fearlessness, for example
- The destruction of conservatism
- Daya otherwise
- The sacrifice of the Gita
- Ciphering the Satyagrahi
- The extreme limit of forgiveness
- The miracle of the gift.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816698653
- 0816698651
- 9780816698660
- 081669866X
- OCLC:
- 922799409
- Publisher Number:
- 40025793128
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