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A tour de force in understanding the failure of democracy in providing human well-being.
Has democracy ended human suffering, a task that the political system set out for itself? Or is democracy incompatible with modernity and, therefore, fails to achieve human well-being? If so, are we left with any option? The book asks these acutely political questions and states emphatically that democracy has failed to ensure the well-being of humanity as a whole. Further, it tries to answer this by exploring the Gandhian alternative to modernism and democracy in contemporary times. In the words of the authors themselves, 'We are aware that in a world divided into a number of ideological camps, the way out suggested in this book will invite ridicule and accusation of orthodoxy. However, the truth has to be told, no matter what the reaction'.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Transformation of Order: Two Examples
Modernism and Democracy: Twin Props of the Autonomous Self
Democracy: The Case of Moral Deficit
Democracy: Myth and Reality
Fault Line of Democracy
Making Sense of Social Justice
The Elusive Search for Community
Back to the Roots
Philosophical Background of Gandhi's Thinking
Gandhi's Critique of Democracy
Local Democracy: Jefferson and Gandhi
Sarvata: Modern Man in Search of Wholeness
Index
