Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading

by Isabel Hofmeyr

Book Overview

At the same time that Gandhi, as a young lawyer in South Africa, began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper. Gandhi's Printing Press is an account of how this project, an apparent footnote to a titanic career, shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma. Pioneering publisher, experimental editor, ethical anthologist--these roles reveal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674072790
• ISBN13: 9780674072794
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"