[bksvol-discuss] Submitted/nonfiction
- From: "Deborah Murray" <blinkeeblink@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 07:49:41 -0400
Hi all,
I've just submitted for proofing "What Gandhi Says About Nonviolence,
Resistance and Courage" by Norman G. Finkelstein.
It's been read and spell-checked. Headers stripped, page numbers/chapter
titles present, text/headings/footnotes formatted.
100 pages.
Description:
There has been widespread recognition of the contribution of the teachings
of Mahatma Gandhi to the tactics underpinning the revolutionary upsurges in
the Middle East and the burgeoning Occupy movements in Europe and the United
States. But few have stopped to examine what Gandhi actually said about the
relationship between nonviolence, resistance and courage.
In these pages Norman Finkelstein draws on extensive readings of Gandhi's
copious oeuvre in order to set out in clear and concise language the basic
principles of Gandhi's approach as well as to pinpoint its contradictions
and limitations.
There is much that will surprise here: Gandhi was not a pacifist; he
believed in the right of those being attacked to strike back and regarded
inaction as a result of cowardice to be a greater sin than even the most
ill-considered aggression. Gandhi's calls for the sacrifice of lives in
order to shame the oppressor into concessions can easily seem chilling and
ruthless.
But Gandhi's insistence that, in the end, peaceful resistance will always be
less costly in human lives than armed opposition, and his understanding that
the role of a protest movement is not primarily to persuade people of
something new, but rather to get them to act on behalf of what they already
accept as right-these principles have profound resonance in the movement for
justice and democracy that began to sweep the world in 2011.
Deborah
To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to
bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of
available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
Other related posts:
