The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy
Gandhi, Leela
The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy - Permanant Black Ranikhet 2014 - 240p
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.
9788178244570
Humanities and Social Science
172.095409041 / GAN
The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy - Permanant Black Ranikhet 2014 - 240p
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.
9788178244570
Humanities and Social Science
172.095409041 / GAN