Excellent reviews, a collectin of essays, with particular focus on ideology, the Salt March, and partition. Also comparisons with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

Gandhi's Power: Nonviolence in Action

Dalton, Dennis

Dennis Dalton

Biographies & Memoirs

Oxford University Press

Mahatma Gandhi's ideas and achievements rank preeminent among leaders of the twentieth century. Dennis Dalton's study of Gandhi's life and thought identifies the crucial link between his political philosophy and his activism and sets forth new ideas about Gandhi's inclusive style of politics. Dalton begins by tracing Gandhi's formative experiences in South Africa between 1893 and 1914 where his method of nonviolent resistance, or satyagraha, was born and melded with his concept of swaraj - personal and political liberation. After examining Gandhi's emergence as a national leader in India between 1919 and 1922, Dalton provides an indepth analysis of two of his signal triumphs: the 1930 civil disobedience campaign against the British and the 1947 Calcutta fast for Hindu-Muslim unity. Dalton brings fresh insight to these important years by culling information from unpublished sources and interviews with numerous participants, including those who joined Gandhi's Salt March to the sea. Dalton places Gandhi's ideas within the historical context of his interaction with the British government and with the religious communities of India. He pays particular attention to the role of religious faith in Gandhi's social reform, how his views on the caste system affected his political activism, and his debates with the Marxist theoretician M. N. Roy and the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. Dalton concludes with a stirring comparison of Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and assesses the lasting importance of Gandhi's ideas. "His claim to uniqueness rests both on the originality of his thought and even more on his uncanny ability to put his theory into practice, " writes Dalton. "Because key ideas like freedom and power so concerned him, the creative ways that he translated them into action remain exciting today, almost fifty years after his death."

Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action

Historical

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Security personnel are being asked to justify their existence in a corporate environment. They must prove their worth in dollars and cents by showing the return on investing in loss prevention. This means security departments are being forced to contribute more to the business as a whole. This book will show security managers and personnel how to go about this, and how to achieve quality in their departments.

Security Management: Business Strategies for Success

Business & Money

Industries

Butterworth-Heinemann

This course contrasts two conflicting views that have long shaped political theory and practice-idealism and realism. The debate between them starts with the origins of philosophy in ancient India and Greece through the 20th century's most extreme examples of idealism and realism-Gandhi and Hitler. You also examine Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Marx, and Freud. These exceptional thinkers sculpted, piece by piece, Western political thought from its inception in 5th-century B.C. Athens. In so doing, they asked: What is the correct relationship of the individual to society? What is the connection between individual freedom and social and political authority? Are human beings fundamentally equal or unequal? In 16 in-depth lectures, Professor Dennis Dalton puts the key theories of power formulated by several of history's greatest minds within your reach.

Power over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory (The Great Courses: Philosophy & Intellectual History)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The Teaching Company

Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition

Douglas Kellner

Robert C. Solomon

Mark W. Risjord

Phillip Cary

Jeremy duQuesnay Adams

Alan Charles Kors

Kathleen Marie Higgins

Michael Sugrue

Louis A. Markos

Darren M. Staloff

Dennis G. Dalton

Jeremy Shearmur

Robert Hilary Kane

Teaching Company

16 Audio CDs
(16 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)

Course Lecture Titles
1. The Hindu Vision of Life 
2. Thucydides and The Peloponnesian War 
3. Law and Rule in Sophocles's Antigone 
4. Socrates and the Socratic Quest 
5. Plato-Idealism and Power, Part I 
6. Plato-Idealism and Power, Part II 
7. Aristotle's Critique of Plato's Republic 
8. Machiavelli's Theory of Power Politics 
9. Rousseau's Theory of Human Nature and Society 
10. Marx's Critique of Capitalism and Solution of Communism 
11. Freud's Theory of Human Nature and Civilization 
12. Thoreau's Theory of Civil Disobedience 
13. Dostoyevsky's Grand Inquisitor 
14. The Idea of Anarchism and the Example of Emma Goldman 
15. Hitler's Use of Power 
16. Gandhi's Use of Power

Power over People CDs - Classical and Modern Political Theory - The Teaching Company (The Great Courses)

Politics & Government

What is the connection between individual freedom and social and political authority? Are human beings fundamentally equal or unequal? In 16 in-depth lectures, Professor Dalton puts the key theories of power formulated by several of history's greatest minds within your reach. These lectures trace two distinct schools of political theory, idealism and realism, from their roots in ancient India and Greece through history and, ultimately, to their impact on the 20th century - via the lives and ideas of two charismatic, yet utterly disparate leaders: Adolph Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi. The issues Professor Dalton addresses in these lectures - and in Western political theory generally - fall into three sets of fundamental questions you'll get to unpack. The first set involves the essential characteristics of human nature and the good society. The second focuses on the intricate relationship between the individual and society. And the final set of questions involves theories about change. Through these lectures and their historical case studies, you'll be able to identify the fundamental questions and concerns that shape classical and modern political theory: Describe the influence of one's understanding of human nature upon one's vision of the good society. Compare and contrast the views of theorists regarding the purpose of the state, the relationship between politics and ethics, and the qualifications for exercising political power. Discuss views of leading political theorists regarding the meaning of freedom, the sources of legitimate political authority, and the obligations of individuals to the state or society, and more.

Power Over People: Classical and Modern Political Theory

The Great Courses

Course Lecture Titles 1. Freedom in the Ancient World 2. The Advent of Freedom in the Modern World 3. Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom, God and the State 4. John Stuart Mill's Philosophy of Freedom 5. Emma Goldman and the Anarchist Idea of Freedom 6. Mahatma Gandhi-Personal and Political Freedom 7. Malcolm X's Quest for Liberation 8. Martin Luther King, Jr.-Stride Toward Freedom

Freedom: The Philosophy of Liberation (The Great Courses)

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