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Bezig met laden... The Gandhian Moment (2013)door Ramin Jahanbegloo
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Gandhi is revered as a historic leader, the father of Indian independence, and the inspiration for nonviolent protest around the world. But the importance of these practical achievements has obscured Gandhi's stature as an extraordinarily innovative political thinker. Ramin Jahanbegloo presents Gandhi the political theorist-the intellectual founder of a system predicated on the power of nonviolence to challenge state sovereignty and domination. A philosopher and an activist in his own right, Jahanbegloo guides us through Gandhi's core ideas, shows how they shaped political protest from 1960's America to the fall of the Berlin Wall and beyond, and calls for their use today by Muslims demanding change. Gandhi challenged mainstream political ideas most forcefully on sovereignty. He argued that state power is not legitimate simply when it commands general support or because it protects us from anarchy. Instead, legitimacy depends on the consent of dutiful citizens willing to challenge the state nonviolently when it acts immorally. The culmination of the inner struggle to recognize one's duty to act, Jahanbegloo says, is the ultimate "Gandhian moment." Gandhi's ideas have motivated such famous figures as Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and the Dalai Lama. As Jahanbegloo demonstrates, they also inspired the unheralded Muslim activists Abul Kalam Azad and Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, whose work for Indian independence answers those today who doubt the viability of nonviolent Islamic protest. The book is a powerful reminder of Gandhi's enduring political relevance and a pioneering account of his extraordinary intellectual achievements. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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In The Gandhian Moment, Jahanbegloo examined the origins of Gandhi's intellectual thought and explicated Gandhi's political system in depth. He also examined the reception of Gandhi's political theory in India and beyond India. Finally, Jahanbegloo examined the relevance of Gandhi's politics today, with the nonviolent protest movements of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela.
And what were Gandhi's political theories? As Jahanbegloo examined, Gandhi’s beliefs and ideas were rooted in love, truth, justice, and respect for others. Gandhi believed that nonviolent politics were the most compatible with democracy and that acts of nonviolent civil resistance were the best acts that an activist should take (in a democracy). Gandhi also believed that the relationship between the individual and the state must be reoriented from the state’s obsession with controlling the people to the people’s control of the state: democracy. And finally, he believed that individuals should reorient themselves to the state with nonviolence in their hearts in order to achieve the greatest good for all: social harmony.
What is a Gandhian Moment? For Jahanbegloo, the Gandhian Moment (occurs) when the power of nonviolent resistance transforms the hearts and minds of protestors who seek to open up the public sphere from violence (p. 3). It is the irreversible transformation from violent acts of politics and protest to nonviolence, which was most demonstrable in the life of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Gandhian Moments can be big and small. And the three most publicly visible (big) Gandhian Moments were the Indian independence movement, US Civil Rights Movement, and the end of apartheid, which Jahanbegloo examined.
The book is short and there are somethings that I would’ve like to have read more of. I would have liked some more analysis of any Buddhist influences on Gandhi’s intellectual and political thought. I would’ve also enjoyed an analysis of the Tiananmen Square protests and the future potential of non-violent protest in Mainland China. However, the author, Jahanbegloo, has told me that he may write a book on China in the future which will explore many of these aspects of global nonviolence.