The ORIGINS OF NONVIOLENCe
- Publish Date: 10/1/1990
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- Page Count: 264 pages
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-00414-3
“Green locates the parallel and juxtaposed careers of Tolstoy and Gandhi within the context of a modern world dominated by Anglo-Saxon imperialism. Green's book is not simply comparative dual biography, but a study of how the lives of two outsiders one Russian, the other Indian—were determined by the world of modern imperialism centering in 19th-century England. Their theories of nonviolence are highly pertinent for the contemporary world now living out the consequences of aggressive Western materialism. A well-written, thoughtful, balanced, and contextualized study.”
This book describes the world-historical forces, acting on the periphery of the modern world—in Russia in the 19th century and India in the 20th century which developed the idea of nonviolence in Tolstoy and then in Gandhi. It was from Tolstoy that Gandhi first learned of this idea, but those world-historical forces acted upon and through both men. Tolstoy and Gandhi were at first agents of modern reform, in Russia and India. But then they became rebels against it and led a profound resistance—a resistance spiritually rooted in the traditionalism of myriad peasant villages.
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