Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence

by Erik H. Erikson

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393310344
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	04/17/1993
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	476
Sales rank:	561,735
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile:	1400L (what's this?)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

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"

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"

Profound and enlightening. . . . Expands our grasp of some of the ultimate questions of our time. --Robert Jay Lifton"

From the Publisher

Profound and enlightening. . . . Expands our grasp of some of the ultimate questions of our time.”

Robert Jay Lifton - The American Scholar

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 - New York Times Book Review

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 - New York Review of Books

Reprint of the work originally published by Norton in 1969. Erikson focuses his psychoanalytic attention upon Gandhi. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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