The Global Gandhi: Essays in Comparative Political Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781138630291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 114 str.

Ramin Jahanbegloo

Opis

This book is a comparative study of Gandhi’s philosophy and analyses his relevance to modern political thought. It traces the intellectual origins of Gandhi’s non-violence as well as his engagement with prominent Western thinkers. An invaluable resource for the contemporary mind, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, political thought, Gandhi studies, and philosophy.

O autorze

Ramin Jahanbegloo is an Iranian–Canadian philosopher. He is presently the Executive Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Nonviolence and Peace Studies and the Vice-Dean of the School of Law at Jindal Global University, Sonipat, India.　He is the winner of the Peace Prize from the United Nations Association in Spain (2009) for his extensive academic works in promoting dialogue between cultures and his advocacy for nonviolence, and more recently the winner of the Josep Palau i Fabre International Essay Prize. Some of his most recent publications are Gadflies in the Public Space (2016), The Decline of Civilization (2017), Letters to a Young Philosopher (2017), and On Forgiveness and Revenge (2017).