Conquest of Violence : : The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict. With a new epilogue by the author / / Joan Valerie Bondurant.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Bondurant, Joan Valerie,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1988
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER II: SATYAGRAHA: ITS BASIC PRECEPTS --; CHAPTER III: SATYAGRAHA AS APPLIED SOCIO-POLITICAL ACTION --; CHAPTER TV: HINDU TRADITION AND SATYAGRAHA: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF GANDHIAN INNOVATIONS --; CHAPTER V: CONSERVATIVE OR ANARCHIST? A NOTE ON GANDHI AND POLITICAL PHILOSHY --; CHAPTER VI: THE GANDHIAN DIALECTIC AND POLITICAL THEORY --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Glossary --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691218045; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691218045?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joan Valerie Bondurant.

When Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948 by an assassin's bullet, the most potent legacy he left to the world was the technique of satyagraha (literally, holding on to the Truth). His "experiments with Truth" were far from complete at the time of his death, but he had developed a new technique for effecting social and political change through the constructive conduct of conflict: Gandhian satyagraha had become eminently more than "passive resistance" or "civil disobedience." By relating what Gandhi said to what he did and by examining instances of satyagraha led by others, this book abstracts from the Indian experiments those essential elements that constitute the Gandhian technique. It explores, in terms familiar to the Western reader, its distinguishing characteristics and its far-reaching implications for social and political philosophy.