Rethinking Satyagraha by Giri, Ananta Kumar;

Truth, Travel and Translation

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Edition number 1
Publisher Routledge
Date of Publication 9 June 2025

ISBN 9781041044062
Binding Hardback
No. of pages340 pages
Size 234x156 mm
Language English

Short description:

This book explores the multi-dimensional aspects of satyagraha as a movement of being with and striving for and fighting for Truth and Truth realizations. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of movement and resistance studies, Gandhi, Indian philosophy, cultural studies, literary studies, religious studies and sociology.

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Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translations explores the multi-dimensional aspects of satyagraha as a movement of being with and striving for and fighting for Truth and Truth realizations. The book goes beyond the conventional discourse of Satyagraha as a social and political action that Gandhi undertook, and links this to the wider moral, philosophical and spiritual quest that is implicated in Satyagraha with and beyond Gandhi. It links Satyagraha to our efforts to overcome the dualism between self and other in various ways. It also relates work and meditation with Truth in Satyagraha to translation and travel. It cultivates a new hermeneutics, politics and spirituality of Satyagraha which is simultaneously everyday and epochal. The book further invites us to rethink and transform the post-Truth discourse and live with Truth and truths?relative, relational, and Absolute--with care, courage, creativity, and transcendence.

With contribution from leading scholars from across the world, Rethinking Satyagraha is a pioneering effort in reiterating the epochal significance of Satyagraha for the 21st century. It makes an important contribution to contemporary Gandhian scholarship and new horizons of social and political theory. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of movement and resistance studies, Gandhi, Indian philosophy, cultural studies, literary studies, religious studies, development studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, and future studies.

Satyagraha, the centre of gravity of this timely book, is a phenomenon that has a venerable, indeed, a noble history. It denotes the defining human characteristic of spontaneity ? the embodied force striving towards and driving the non-violent renewal of the human form of life through enlightenment and liberation asobserved, for example, in social activism and movements. While oriented towards real achievements under concrete conditions, the process is nevertheless throughout directed and guided by deep-seated concerns regarding adequate knowledge of our world, the moral organisation of social and political life and ethical subjectivity.Although the enabling spontaneous striving is thus firmly undergirded, such intuitive awareness of the structure of human activity by nomeans occludes the process, barring pathological cases, but rather infinitely keeps it open. As the title of the collection assembled under the able editorship of Ananta Kumar Giri intimates, satyagraha possesses an acute relevance for our 21st-century crisis-ridden global world that we should reflexively re-appropriate and make our own.

Piet Strydom, University College Cork, Ireland

This remarkable collection opens up new horizons for scholars, activists and critical thinkers by looking through and beyond the concept of Satyagraha to pose new questions about movement, co-productive dialogue and the dynamic nature of truth. It is a philosophical work that refuses any quick road to transcendence.

Arjun Appadurai, Emeritus Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University

This book is a timely gift to humanity. At a time ofwarmongering and of barbarian destruction of peoples, livelihoods and cultures this book invites us to pause and to meditate on and valorize all the convivial potential of Satyagraha. Gandhi was a remarkable intercultural translator and Ananta Kumar Giri and his fellow contributors follow his lead enriching it with new and innovative perspectives in light of the new challenges the world is facing.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Emeritus Professor, University of Coimbra, Portugal, and author of Law and the Epistemologies of the South (2023)

An ensemble of scholars gathered here to engage in a dialogue with Gandhi. Of the themes discussed, the exploration of the significance of walking in Gandhi?s life is especially interesting. Like spinning cotton on the charkha, it was primarily a form of meditation, besides and before its place and symbolism (from the solitary walk to the collective padayatra) in the campaign against colonial rule. We live in a violent world which hardly leaves a space for dialogue. We live in a solipsistic world (of SUVs with dark windows) which leaves no room for the other. This anthology invites us to walk together ? with each other, with the contributors, and with Gandhiji ? to rediscover the power of dialogue (with open ears, no earbuds) and the joy of walking.

Daniel Raveh, Professor of Indian and Comparative Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel

With millions dying due to intrastate and interstate wars, Gandhi?s ?experiments with truth? are proving ever more wise and urgent.These excellent essays should be read and their advice heeded.

Robert McDermott, President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, USA