Essays on modernism, democracy and well-being : a Gandhian perspective / Ramashray Roy, Ravi Ranjan.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications Inc., 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resource (x, 312 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9351508129
- 9789351508106
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- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Political and social views
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
- Democracy -- Social aspects
- Democracy -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Well-being -- Social aspects
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General
- Democracy -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Democracy -- Social aspects
- Political and social views
- 321.8 23
- JC423 .R73 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Transformation of Order : Two Examples -- Modernism and Democracy : Twin Props of the Autonomous Self -- Democracy : The Case of Moral Deficit -- Democracy : Myth and Reality -- Fault Line of Democracy -- Making Sense of Social Justice -- The Elusive Search for Community -- Back to the Roots -- Philosophical Background of Gandhi's Thinking -- Gandhi's Critique of Democracy -- Local Democracy : Jefferson and Gandhi -- Sarvata : Modern Man in Search of Wholeness.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 26, 2016).
A tour de force in understanding the failure of democracy in providing human well-being.
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