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Alternative Radio for April 15, 2013
1:00 PM - 1:58 PM
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Today's Highlight: Prof. Leela Gandhi: "Gandhi After Gandhi: Globalizing Gandhian Ethics"
Leela Gandhi is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Chicago. Considered a noted academic in the field of postcolonial theory, her latest book, The Common Cause: Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900 -1955, is forthcoming from University of Chicago Press. Leela Gandhi is the daughter of the late Indian philosopher Ramchandra Gandhi and the great-granddaughter of the Indian Independence movement leader, Mahatma Gandhi.
In this talk, Gandhi explores the trans-national nature of her great-grandfather's influences: modern South Asian gurus, including Sri Aurobindo and Ramana Maharshi; contemporary European radical thinkers such as Tolstoy and Edward Carpenter; and, perhaps most surprisingly, the ancient Greek philosophy of Cynicism.
"He was a conduit," Leela Gandhi observes. "He gathered up wonderful things that were happening all around him. He belongs to everybody, and he gained from everybody."
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