Gandhi's Diagnostic Approach Rethought: Exploring a Perspective on His Life and Work - Hardcover

Margaret Chatterjee

9788185002811: Gandhi's Diagnostic Approach Rethought: Exploring a Perspective on His Life and Work

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8185002819 ISBN 13: 9788185002811

Publisher: Promilla, 2007

This book explores a new angle on Gandhi's life and work, the way in which his interest in medical matters shows itself in his language and his responses to situations, people and movements. A dialogue is set up across space and time, highlighting Gandhi's diagnoses of causes and cures, and his unfailing focus on the needs of his own people. Discussions include his critique of Russian thinkers, Mazzini, and an extensive examination of his interest in Charles Bradlaugh which brings out the interplay between Gandhi's courtroom experience and his way of distinguishing between truth and untruth. Analyses of his understanding of the moral equivalent of war, the image of the oceanic circle, tradition and modernity, further illustrate his diagnostic approach, laying bare both the intellectual sinews of his thought as well as his constant stress on praxis. Relating Gandhi's hermeneutic of practice to present-day conditions and the maladies which beset us, the author offers an epilogue which will not fail to provoke the reader.

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About the Author:

Author Bio: Margaret Chatterjee taught philosophy at Delhi University from 1956 to 1990, holding a chair in philosophy during part of this time. During her tenure at Delhi she took time off to be Professor of Comparative Religion of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan for a year. She has held Visiting Professorships at Drew and Calgary Universities, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bryn Mawr College, and was Visiting Scholar in residence at Pendle Hill, Pa. She was Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study at Simla from 1986 to 1989, Spalding Visiting Fellow in Indian Philosophy and Religion at Wolfson College, Oxford in 1991, and from 1992-98 taught philosophy at Westminster College, Oxford University. Formerly President of the International Society for Metaphysics, she delivered the Teape Lectures in the University of Cambridge in 1984. She has been researching on Gandhi's life and thought for many years and has lectured on this subject in many countries. Her publications include Gandhi's Religious Thought (Macmillan and Notre Dame, 1983) and GAndhi and His Jewish Friends (Macmillan, 1992).

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