01510nam a2200145Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200190007610000230009524500920011826000500021052010550026065000140131565000350132920261005122334.0260603s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9789387693425  223a320.01 JAH  aJahanbegloo, Ramin 4aThe disobedient Indianb: towards a Gandhian philosophy of dissentc/ Ramin Jahanbegloo  aNew Delhib: Speaking Tiger Publishingc,2018  aIn this original and timely book, Ramin Jahanbegloo, one of the world’s leading political philosophers, engages with the most pressing question facing all of us today: is it not our duty, as free and autonomous citizens of democracy, to question and speak out against all authority? Should we not take back the power from self-interested political actors in the true spirit of Gandhi, for whom Swaraj was more than mere freedom from oppression?

The core idea of Gandhi’s philosophy of resistance, Jahanbegloo argues, is his unshakeable conviction that it is no longer possible to organize political action without disobedience. Democracy, to be worthy of obedience, he says, must be structured so that every citizen can question and disobey unjust laws and institutions. This is what Mahatma Gandhi still tells us, more forcefully than any other thinker of the twentieth century.

The Disobedient Indian is a compellingly argued, persuasive handbook about the history, philosophy and necessity of disobedience. It is a vital tract for our times.  aSociology  aPhilosophy, Civil Disobedience