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Gandhi
Voice of a New Age Revolution
By Martin Green
“Martin Green’s . . . Gandhi helps us to understand why Vaclav Havel, Al Gore, and many more find him relevant. . . . [Today’s] burgeoning green mentality echoes New Age questions and themes that first surfaced at the end of the eighteenth century, then again at the end of the nineteenth when, as a law student in London, Gandhi first encountered them. . . . Green’s Gandhi helps us to understand why in his time Gandhi became a world historical figure, and in ours a New Age voice that speaks to us about the twenty-first century.”
—Lloyd I. Rudolph (Emeritus Professor of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science)
“Martin Green offers new keys for understanding [Gandhi]: late 19th-century New Age thinking, certain close personal relationships [including] relationships with women. [Today] we see the refloresence of . . . revolutionary themes in environmentalism, natural medicine, and rejection of hierarchical domination. Brilliant indeed for its flashes of insight, [this book] opens new avenues for understanding Gandhi the man and his persistence in [our] consciousness.”
—James D. Hunt (Author)
Summary
The name of Mahatma Gandhi is one of the most widely recognized in the world. His Autobiography has been translated into all major languages, and has been continuously in print since it was published. Yet many mysteries surround the man, especially about his inner life and personal relationships.
More than a biography, this book—perhaps the best single introduction to Mohandas K. Gandhi—examines many aspects of his development not hitherto covered, like the revelation that in the first half of his life, Gandhi suffered from a debilitating shyness. Gandhi is portrayed as a flawed man who aspired to perfection, and reduces him to human scale without diminishing his greatness.
A unique feature of this book is its account of Gandhi's encounter with the "New Age" movement of the late nineteenth century. Like the New Age movement of today, this earlier period stressed spiritual growth, a love of peace, reverence for the environment, and vegetarianism. Among the figures who had an impact on Gandhi were Tolstoy, Annie Besant, Elena Petrovna Blavatsky, and John Ruskin.
About the Author
Martin B. Green was born in 1932 in England. He is a professor, writer, playwright, editor, and publisher. His numerous books explore psychoanalysis, philosophical non-violence, countercultures, and adventure among other social and intellectual topics.
