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The Common Cause
Leela Gandhi
其他書名
Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy
出版Permanent Black, 2015-04
主題Political Science / Political Ideologies / DemocracyPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismPolitical Science / World / Asian
ISBN81782445789788178244570
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=cbPosgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in 'The Common Cause', Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism, fascism, and liberalism - an ethic that excluded the ordinary and unexceptional. But, she also illuminates an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial, antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi's spiritual discipline.