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Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

by EHErikson (Author)

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    Paperback 1993

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Synopsis

In this study of Mahatma Gandhi, psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson explores how Gandhi succeeded in mobilizing the Indian people both spiritually and politically as he became the revolutionary innovator of militant non-violence and India became the motherland of large-scale civil disobedience.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 480
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 05 May 1993
ISBN 10: 0393310345
ISBN 13: 9780393310344

Media Reviews
Profound and enlightening... Expands our grasp of some of the ultimate questions of our time. -- Robert Jay Lifton It is the triumph of Erikson's book that in uncovering the inner sources of Gandhi's power it does not dissolve but deepens his inherent moral ambiguity... [This] penetrating book ... deepens out understanding not only of the inward sources of personal greatness but those, as well, of its self-defeat. -- Clifford Geertz Gandhi's Truth, even more brilliantly than its predecessor, Young Man Luther, shows that psychoanalytic theory, in the hands of an interpreter both resourceful and wise, can immeasurably enrich the study of 'great lives' and of much else besides... [The book's] richness and almost inexhaustible suggestiveness ... cannot be conveyed in a summary. -- Christopher Lasch
Author Bio
A winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Erik H. Erikson was renowned worldwide as teacher, clinician, and theorist in the field of psychoanalysis and human development.