Rethinking Satyagraha

Truth, Travel and Translation
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-04406-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translations explores the multi-dimensional aspects of satyagraha as a movement of being with and striving for and fighting for Truth and Truth realizations.  The book goes beyond the conventional discourse of Satyagraha as a social and political action that Gandhi undertook, and links this to the wider moral, philosophical and spiritual quest that is implicated in Satyagraha with and beyond Gandhi. It links Satyagraha to our efforts to overcome the dualism between self and other in various ways. It also relates work and meditation with Truth in Satyagraha to translation and travel. It cultivates a new hermeneutics, politics and spirituality of Satyagraha which is simultaneously everyday and epochal.  The book further invites us to rethink and transform the post-Truth discourse and live with Truth and truths—relative, relational, and Absolute--with care, courage, creativity, and transcendence.

With contribution from leading scholars from across the world, Rethinking Satyagraha is a pioneering effort in reiterating the epochal significance of Satyagraha for the 21st century.  It makes an important contribution to contemporary Gandhian scholarship and new horizons of social and political theory. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of movement and resistance studies, Gandhi, Indian philosophy, cultural studies, literary studies, religious studies, development studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, and future studies.

Zielgruppe

General and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giri, Ananta Kumar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Rethinking Satyagraha: An Introduction and an Invitation 

 

Part I: Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation

1. Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation 

2. Rethinking Gandhi’s Philosophy and Practice of Satyagraha: Insights, Misconceptions, and Reformulations 

3. Reclaiming Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translation 

4. In Search of Inter-religious Truth: The Acts of Travel and Translation in Comparative Theology 

 

Part II: Rethinking Satyagraha: Religion, Spirituality and Beyond

5. Imam Hussain, Gandhi, Gaffar Khan and the Traditions of Satyagraha and Winning Martyrdom in Islam 

6. Satyagraha and Gandhi’s Religious Ethics 

7. Satyagraha: The Complex Legacy of Gandhi and Buber 

8. Gandhi-Religion-Spirituality: Satyagraha in the 21st Century 

9. Satyagraha and the making and un-making of Gandhi’s Swaraj 

10. Satyagraha, Three Gunas and the Calling of Hope: Plato, Gandhi, Moltzman and Beyond 

11 Gandhi and Mandela, The Two Pioneers of Satyagraha Movement: A Comparative Analysis 

12. Spirituality, Seva and the Art of Seeking the Truth: Perspectives from the Guru-led Seva Movements in India 

 

Part III: Rethinking Satyagraha: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics and Beyond

13. Gandhi on Non-Violence in Action, Education and Satyagraha 

14. Satyagraha as Emancipation: Gandhi, Kallenbach and Naidoo 

15. Wittgenstein and Gandhi: Religion, Politics, Mysticism and Social Critique 

16. Satyagraha as Pure Means: Recovering Gandhi’s Politics of the Body in Dialogue with Agamben’s Contemporary Political Theory 

17. Doing Without a Patrimonial Ruler and the Divine Right of Kings: Satyagraha, Democracy and Egalitarianism 

18. Gandhi’s Experiment with Walking / Padayatras: An unfolding of a Moral Space 

 

Afterword by Marcus Bussey

Über Autor(innen)

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad, including Aalborg University (Denmark), Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris (France), the University of Kentucky (USA), University of Freiburg & Humboldt University (Germany), Jagiellonian University (Poland) and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature.  Dr Giri has written and edited around three dozen books in Odia and English.