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Economies of violence: the Bhagavadgita and the fostering of life in Gandhi's and Ghose's anticolonial theories / Klausen, Jimmy Casas

Klausen, Jimmy Casas	Journal Article
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2014.

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This article compares the political theories that Mohandas Gandhi and Aurobindo Ghose develop around the assumption that harm or violence is an unavoidable feature of all human action. Both Ghose and Gandhi venerated the Bhagavadgita and shared a concern to foster life, and they shaped Hindu political theory by combining modern biological concepts with spiritual perspectives to determine the impact of harmful human actions within a totality of interdependent living beings. Although each thinker develops his anticolonial theory by balancing the value of life, the acceptance of an economy of violence, and the duty to act rather than renounce action, they diverge on the acceptability of violence whether in politics or in interactions with nature. Analyzing their framing of human actions as simultaneously biological and spiritual opens up a new perspective on Gandhi's refusal and Ghose's willingness to resort to violence in resistance to British colonial rule in India.

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India ; Gandhi ; Mohandas ; Aurobindo Ghose ; Bhagavadgita ; Hindu Political Theory ;
Economy of Violence

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Hannah Arendt’s antiprimitivism / Klausen, Jimmy Casas

Klausen, Jimmy Casas	Journal Article
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2010.

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This essay examines Arendt's descriptions of "Hottentots" in The Origins of Totalitarianism , especially the comparisons and contrasts she frequently draws between Hottentots and other peoples. In particular, Arendt highlights dehumanization of presumptively "civilized" people in comparing them to African "savages." Close reading of such analogies demands that we look beyond the racial explanations that other scholars have offered and focus instead on how Arendt's conception of humanity is bound up with a specific sense of culture that is antiprimitivist-exclusive of peoples without history, primitives. Analysis of her moral anthropology uncovers the Cape Colony discourses and postenlightenment German philosophical supports that inform her antiprimitivism. However, Arendt's antiprimitivism may not remain confined to Origins. In later essays, Arendt analyzes the various aspects of culture in instructive ways.Yet she also synthesizes culture concepts into a schema that introduces problems for her.

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Totalitarianism ; Dehumanization ; Hannah Arendt's Antiprimitivism ; German Philosophical Support ; Hannah Arendt’s Antiprimitivism

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ID: 108022

Reply to Gundogdu / Klausen, Jimmy Casas

Klausen, Jimmy Casas	Journal Article
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2011.

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Civilization ; Arendt ; Criticisms ; Imperialism ; Culture Heritage

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