Shall I project a world?

[Mark Kohut]

There has been a new book published , another 800 page gorilla, that seems
to
go as deep into all the political and human questions as anyone could want.
In one book.

With a specific text and commentary on it.

The book is the Critical Annotated edition of
Gandhi's* An Autobiography* or *The Story of *
*My Experiments With Truth. *I like the provisional,
pragmatic self-description of such a life as he led.
All that firmness of right action YET, not too much self-righteousness (I
hope).
Mohandas Gandhi, I hardly know ye...(not even your correct first name)

Published by a small team of scholars, largely Indian and names unknown
to me.

PULL QUOTES AND OBSERVATIONS from the Foreword:
 .."the global fraternity
of scholars who did find in Gandhi a voice that defies the seductive mix of
the Enlightenment
values and a utopian, urban-industrial world to project an altogether
different vision of a desirable society"

"In that alternative vision, there is a built-in admission that
the....utopic vision, which the Enlightenment
projects, has little or nothing to say about the central problem humanity
faces today---massive, organized, structural and,
one might add 'scientized' violence--towards fellow humans, living nature
and future generations that are supposed to
inhabit the earth."

"that quasi-nihilistic violence.....1) the brutalization that has taken an
epidemic form.....2) the cultivation of political terror without which
virtue was helpless"--Robespierre

I will surely not read it all, just pointing and sayin'.