Rolland, Gandhi and Madeleine Slade
Spiritual politics, France and the wider world
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16579668 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Harris (0000-0002-7356-0127) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 579-599 |
| Publication date | 2013-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-1191 • E-ISSN: 1477-4542 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/fh/crt048 |
| OpenAlex | W2007240018 |
| Language | DE |
| Citations received | 2 |
Between 6 and 11 December in 1931, a meeting occurred between the French intellectual Romain Rolland; Madeleine Slade, the daughter of a British Admiral; and Mahatma Gandhi. Rolland wanted Gandhianism to counter the excesses of both communism and fascism and fantasized that, in gaining the Mahatma’s aid in the fight against Western authoritarianism, a Eurasian collaboration would redeem the Occident from its suicidal violence. Gandhi disappointed in pursuing a radical course of nationalist revival and ‘passive resistance’, largely unconcerned with European ideological struggle. The men had come together through Slade, whom Rolland had ‘given’ to Gandhi to enhance East-West collaboration. Their triangular relations-and the tensions and paradoxes it threw up–provide a unique opportunity to explore spirituality, gender and subjectivity in global history, and to examine the connections between personal stories and world political systems, novel social experiments and individual spiritualities.
Art · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |