Gandhi

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Michaël de Saint-Chëron is the author of several books and specializes in Jewish Theology and the ties with Hinduism and Buddhism. He has taught at the Sorbonne and the Elie Wiesel University in Paris and in two Taiwan universities. His recent publications include Evil and Exile with Elie Wiesel, Notre Dame University Press, 2000 *and *Conversations with Emmanuel Levinas, Duquesne University Press, 2010.

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This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view and Jewish too perhaps, of a man who became a prophet in a blood-thirsty century. The book is further enriched by a discussion on Hindu mysticism and the concept of `love in Judaism. The author also looks at how Gandhi has played a major role on shaping French intellectuals such as Andre Malraux. At the end however, a central dilemma, and a painful one to the work, concerns Gandhi s silence on the Holocaust.

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Prologue: Gandhi and India

1. The Anti-Biography of a Great Soul

2. How Does One Make a Mohandas Gandhi?

3. Gandhi Discovers the Bhagavad Gita

4. An Indian Lawyer Confronts Apartheid

5. The Non-Violent Revolution

6. The Path to Renunciation

7. Satyagraha in Deed and in Reality

8. The Gandhi-Tolstoy Correspondence

9. Gandhi returns to India

10. Between Non-Violence and Anti-Zionism

11. India and Gandhi viewed by Romain Rolland and André Malraux

12. Gandhi s Heritage Today

13. Beyond Gandhi: Hinduism-Judaism A Root-to-Root Conversation