The Global Gandhi

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).

Acknowledgments. Introduction: Gandhi and the otherness of the other. 1. Gandhi and Thoreau: the duty to disobey 2. Gandhi and Tolstoy: desperate old men wandering like Oedipus at Colonus 3. Beyond violence: a comparative analysis of Hannah Arendt and Mahatma Gandhi 4. Two concepts of pluralism: a comparative study of Mahatma Gandhi and Isaiah Berlin 5. Gandhi and Castoriadis: self-government and autonomy 6. Gandhi and Abdul Ghaffar Khan: critique of religious fanaticism 7. Gandhi and the Khilafat 8. The Gandhian vision of democracy. Conclusion: Gandhi and the Global Satyagraha. Bibliography