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Gandhi: A Prophecy

by: B.K. Mallik

This book written almost immediately after Gandhi’s demise suggests a fresh view of his struggle to achieve “peace in the human home” embedded as it is in Mallik’s socio-philosophical theory of conflict and its avoidance.

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ISBN: 9788124607558
Year Of Publication: 2014
Edition: 1st
Pages : xvii, 111p.
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 23
Weight: 360

Overview

This book written almost immediately after Gandhi’s demise suggests a fresh view of his struggle to achieve “peace in the human home” embedded as it is in Mallik’s socio-philosophical theory of conflict and its avoidance. Further in the light of the author’s view of the dynamics of history, it reads the life and death of Mahatma Gandhi as more than a mere episode in the milieu of traditional value: it is projected as a significant event which opens up new and unprecedented possibilities for the future of man.
As an original and thought-provoking perspective it should invoke the interest of Gandhians, philosophers and historians alike.

Contents

Part One
Mahaprasthan
Mahaprasthan
Part Two
A Prophecy
I. Legal and Moral Values
II. The Long Night of History
III. An Experiment with Tradition
IV. Mystics, Humanists and Sceptics
V. Asceticism contra Freedom
VI. Atoms: The Duality of the Unique
VII. Possibility of the Absolute
VIII. The Society of Beings
Sravana – the 15th

Meet the Author
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Philosopher Basanta Kumar Mallik (1879–1958), MA Philosophy (Calcutta University), worked as tutor and administrator in Nepal and did further studies in law and anthropology at Oxford, where he also wrote a philosophical thesis on Freedom. When he finally returned to Oxford he lectured through the war years and wrote several philosophical books including The Real & the Negative (London: George Allen & Unwin 1940), Related Multiplicity (Oxford: Hall the Publisher, 1952), Non Absolutes (London: Vincent Stuart, 1956) and Mythology & Possibility (London: Vincent Stuart, 1960). Other works include The Individual and the Group (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1939) and The Towering Wave (Vincent Stuart Publishers, 1953, republished by D.K. Printworld, 2014).
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