The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900-1955

by Leela Gandhi and Professor Leela Gandhi

Book Overview

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause , Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism, fascism, and liberalism--an ethic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022601990X
• ISBN13: 9780226019901
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"