Enlightenment and Violence

Modernity and Nation-Making

Tadd Fernee (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

454 Seiten

2020
Sage Publications India Pvt Ltd (Verlag)
978-93-5388-019-4 (ISBN)

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Enlightenment and Violence is a history of ideas that proposes a multi-centred and non-Eurocentric interpretation of the Enlightenment as a human heritage. This comparative study reconstructs how modernity was negotiated in different intellectual and political contexts as a national discourse within the broader heritage of Enlightenment.

The author has compared 16th and 20th century Indian history to the early modern histories of Persia, Turkey and Western Europe in order to ground analysis of their 20th century nation-making experiences within a common problematic.

The focus is upon an ethic of reconciliation over totalizing projects as a means to create non-violent conflict resolution in the modern context. It is suggested that an emergent ethic of reconciliation in nation-making—inspired by the Indian paradigm—harbours the potential to create more democratic and open societies, in rejection of the authoritarian patterns that too frequently shaped the experiences of the 20th century.

Tadd Fernée is currently a guest lecturer at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he leads seminars on Comparative History and the History of Ideas. The author completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, in the year 2009–2010. The author has published the following books and articles: (co-authored with Ali Mirsepassi) At Home and in the World: Islam, Democracy, and Cosmopolitanism (April 2014); “Modernity and Nation-making in India, Turkey and Iran” in International Journal of Asian Studies (2012); “The Common Theoretical Terrain of the Gandhi and Nehru Periods: The Ethic of Reconciliation over Revenge in Nation-making” in Studies in History (2012); “Gandhi and the Heritage of Enlightenment: Nonviolence, Secularism and Conflict Resolution” in International Review of Sociology (forthcoming); and “The American Civil War as a Social Revolution: The Enlightenment, Apocalyptic Imagination and Changes in Moral Perception” in the International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Linguistics, Political and Social Science, History and Philosophy (forthcoming).

Series Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Akbar’s “Universal Peace” (Sulh-i Kul): Relevance to the Enlightenment
The European Enlightenment: Between Revenge and Reconciliation
Early Indian Nationalism: Between Liberty and Authenticity
The Indian National Movement and Gandhi: The Ethic of Reconciliation as Mass Movement
The Ottoman–Turkish Experience of the Enlightenment: Mass Movement and Programme
The Heritage of Non-violence in the Nehru Period: The Ethic of Reconciliation in Nation-Making
Iranian Enlightenment: Struggle for Multi-Cultural Democracy and Its Demise
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.02.2020
Reihe/Serie	Sage Series in Modern Indian History
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	580 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	93-5388-019-X / 935388019X
ISBN-13	978-93-5388-019-4 / 9789353880194
Zustand	Neuware