Gandhi: Portraits of Integrity

Posted on 23 August 2015 by Stefan Rossbach

Stefan Rossbach’s introduction to our Portraits of Integrity meeting on Gandhi is now available.

Readings

The COLLECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI (CWMG, 98 volumes) are available online.

Click on ‘download’ to download pdfs of relevant passages

(i) From the Autobiography <download>:

M.K. Gandhi, An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth, various editions, and online at CWMG, Vol.44, item 115ff, pp.88ff.

  • Introduction (pp. 88-92)
  • Part I, sections 6, 7 & 8 (pp. 105-112)
  • Part II, sections 8 & 9 (pp. 172-178)
  • Part III, sections 7 & 8 (pp. 243-248)
  • Part III, section 22 (pp. 275-277)
  • Part IV, sections 24, 25 & 26 (pp. 323-329)

(ii) On satyagraha <download>:

  • M.K. Gandhi, ‘Who can offer satyagraha ?’, CWMG, Vol.9, item 210, pp.339-342
  • M.K. Gandhi, ‘The theory and practice of satyagraha’, CWMG, Vol.14, item 195, pp.216-218
  • M.K. Gandhi, ‘The secret of satyagraha in South Africa’, CWMG, Vol.15, item 179, pp.238-242
  • M.K. Gandhi, ‘Instructions to volunteers’, CWMG, Vol.16, item 299, pp.436-438
  • M.K. Gandhi, ‘Some rules of satyagraha’, CWMG, Vol.48, item 354, pp.340-342

(iii) On the late brahmacharya ‘experiments’ <download>:

  • M.K. Gandhi, ‘Letter to Ramdas Gandhi’, CWMG, Vol.93, item 352, pp.259-260
  • M.K. Gandhi, ‘Speech at Prayer Meeting’ (last paragraph), 1 February 1947, CWMG, Vol.93, item 496, pp.354-356

Additional reading

(iv) Gandhi’s vision for a ‘free India’

  • M. K. Gandi, ‘Hind Swaraj’ (Indian Home-rule), CWMG, Vol. 10, item 160, pp. 245-315. (available online)

About Stefan Rossbach

Dr Stefan Rossbach is a specialist in social and political theory and the history of political ideas. Prior to moving to Kent in 1995, Dr Rossbach held scholarships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, the John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, and the European University Institute. He was a visiting scholar at the Contemporary History Institute in Athens, Ohio (1989/90), the Department of War Studies at King's College London (1990/1), the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, Berlin (1991), and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University (1999, 2001, 2006). Dr Rossbach is interested in the ‘spiritual dimension of politics’, which includes the broader question of the possibility of finding a ‘critical knowledge of order’ outside politics and the theoretical and practical problems involved in using this knowledge within politics. His specialist interests include the lifeworks of Niklas Luhmann, Eric Voegelin, Karol Wojtyła (John Paul II), and René Girard. Dr Rossbach won the Social Sciences Faculty Teaching Prize in 2005, 2008 and 2014. He has supervised 18 research students through to completion and in 2009 was awarded the University's Postgraduate Supervision Prize.
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