Gandhi After 9/11: Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability

ISBN-13: 9780199491490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str.

Douglas Allen

Recenzje

This thought-provoking book, full of nuanced understanding of Gandhi's philosophy and practice, makes an exce llent contribution to the relevance of Gandhi for the 21st century. The book succeeds in providing the argument that Gandhi offers to us the most profound and infl uential theory, philosophy, and eng aged practices of ahimsa or non- violence to deal with the contemporary crisis of marginality, as well as other multifarious challenges that confront humanity today. In many ways, regardless of one's own personal take on the man or the doctrine, this book is a fascinating read because it brings together effectively for the reader how a Gandhi-informed, non-violent response is creative sustainable, and relevant today. Overall, this outstanding collection will be valuable to Gandhian scholars, students, and activists.

O autorze

Douglas Allen is Professor and former Chairperson of Philosophy at the University of Maine, U.S.A. He served as President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and is Series Editor of Lexington's Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion. Author and editor of 15 books and 150 book chapters and scholarly journal articles, he has been awarded Fulbright and Smithsonian grants to India. His Gandhi books include Comparative Philosophy and Religion in Times of Terror; The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century; and Mahatma Gandhi. Allen has been a peace and justice scholar-activist, starting with the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement; he has been deeply involved in many of the struggles central to Gandhi after 9/11. He had the honor of addressing the General Assembly on the United Nations International Day of Nonviolence, 2 October 2017. He may be reached at dallen@maine.edu.