The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy

By:

Gandhi, Leela

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Permanant Black Ranikhet 2014Description: 240pISBN:

9788178244570

Subject(s):

Humanities and Social Science

DDC classification:

172.095409041 GAN

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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.

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