Uday S Mehta

Dados Biográficos

ID240238
NOMEUday S Mehta
PRENOMESUday S
SOBRENOMEMehta
ASSINATURAMEHTA U S
AFILIAÇÕESGraduate Center of the City University of New York, USA
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES23
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1990
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Self-Knowledge

    Uday S Mehta, UDAY MEHTACHAPTERHumanistic Judgment2026

  • Impatience and Modern Society

    Uday S MehtaARTICLESocial research2023

    Impatience is a defining aspect of the modern world and its identity, as is starkly exemplified in the emphasis on technology. Itis the central mode along which individual and social life areorganized. In contrast, for Mahatma Gandhi patience is the crucial category for healthy individual and social existence

  • Survival, Death, and Life in the Commons

    Uday S MehtaARTICLESocial research2021

  • Indian Constitutionalism

    Uday S MehtaCHAPTERThe Oxford Handbook of the Indian…2017

    This chapter examines the background conditions, or ideas, that informed the Indian Constituent Assembly (1946–49) as it reflected on the country’s future identity, and how that identity has been shaped by the Constitution. Constitutions, including the Indian Constitution, have been associated with concrete events that are saturated in terms of context and are often interpreted as the product of a historical process. This article begins with an o…

  • Thoughts on Ajay Skaria’s Unconditional equality

    Uday S MehtaARTICLEContemporary South Asia2017

    Comment on Skaria, Ajay. 2016. Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

  • Patience, Inwardness, and Self-Knowledge in Gandhi's Hind Swaraj

    Uday S MehtaARTICLEPublic Culture2011Citada por: 6

    This essay is on why patience as a concept is central to understanding Gandhi's critique of modernity and his conception of the self

  • Gandhi on Democracy, Politics and the Ethics of Everyday Life

    Open AccessUday S MehtaARTICLEModern Intellectual History2010Citada por: 17Referências: 2

    This paper is about Gandhi's critique of politics, of which his ambivalence towards democracy was a part. I argue that for Gandhi the ground of moral action is fearlessness, while that of political reason is security and self-defense. Gandhi sees the context of moral action in the mundane fabric of everyday life, in places such as the family and the village. For that reason he does not believe that moral action requires being supplemented by the …

  • Liberal Strategies of Exclusion

    Uday S MehtaCHAPTERTensions of Empire1997

    This chapter examines the political universality and the history of political exclusion in relation to liberalism, proposing a way of linking the reading of liberal texts and the interpretation of liberal practices, and discussing anthropological capacities that are allegedly the basis of liberal universalism. It underscores the exclusionary effect of the distinction between anthropological studies, and considers the strategies through which util…

  • Liberal Strategies of Exclusion

    Open AccessUday S MehtaARTICLEPolitics & Society1990

    Pure insight, however is in the first instance without any content; it is the sheer disappearance of content; but by its negative attitude towards what it excludes it will make itself real and give itself a content.—Hegel, Phenomenology of Mind