| Description |
1 online resource (1 volume) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: moral imperfection: an ethics for democracy -- After virtue: the strange case of belle époque socialist antimaterialism -- On descent: stories from the gurus of modern India -- Elementary virtues: Great War and the crisis of European man -- Inconsequence: some little-known mutinies around 1946 -- Epilogue: paths of ahimsaic historiography. |
| Summary |
This is an ethical history of democracy in the first half of the 20th century. In this era, Gandhi argues, the concept of ethics had obtained a ubiquitous application. No longer the denominator for right and wrong or good and bad behaviour, merely, it came to designate all projects of disciplined self-fashioning. These could tend either toward exclusivity and hierarchy or toward a more inclusive universalism, depending on the players. Gandhi discloses a shared ethos of perfectionist values across imperialism, fascism, and new liberalism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Democracy -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Postcolonialism -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Postcolonialism -- India.
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India. |
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Anti-imperialist movements -- India.
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Anti-imperialist movements. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gandhi, Leela, 1966- Common cause 9780226019871 (DLC) 2013036399 (OCoLC)858672841 |
| ISBN |
9780226020075 (electronic book) |
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022602007X (electronic book) |
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9780226019871 |
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022601987X |
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9780226019901 |
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022601990X |
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