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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155519403321

Autore

Tolstoy Leo

Titolo

The kingdom of God is within you / / by Leo Tolstoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[New York, New York] : , : Sheba Blake, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-304-74953-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (982 p.)

Disciplina

230

Soggetti

Christianity - Essence, genius, nature

Christianity

Nonviolence - Religious aspects - Christianity

Government, Resistance to - Religious aspects - Christianity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You is a fascinating work, from both a religious and a historical perspective. In the book he outlines a radical reorganization of society based on a literal translation of Christianity. Not in a Holy Roller sort of way but in an actual ""What would Jesus do?"" sort of way, banning war and murder and following the teachings of Christ to a 'T'.   This book would have a profound effect on Gandhi, who after reading it was turned on to the idea of liberating his people from British rule. Tolstoy wrote to Gandhi in a letter titled ""A letter to a Hindu,"" in



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825255303321

Autore

Nayar Pramod K.

Titolo

Bhopal's ecological gothic : disaster, precarity, and the biopolitical uncanny / / Pramod K. Nayar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4985-4046-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 pages)

Collana

Ecocritical Theory and Practice

Disciplina

809.9336

Soggetti

Ecocriticism - India - Bhopal

India Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction: Bhopal, disaster, precarity -- ; 1 The prefiguration of disaster -- ; 2 The event of disaster -- ; 3 Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny I: the nature of haunting -- ; 4 Bhopal's biopolitical uncanny II: the haunting of nature -- ; 5 Bhopal's precarity: toxic history and thanatopolitics in the postcolony -- ; Conclusion: "Burial of an unknown child" as icon.

Sommario/riassunto

Studies the cultural texts--fiction, protest effigies, photographs, films, reportage, eyewitness accounts, campaign posters and reports--produced around the world's worst industrial disaster: the Bhopal tragedy of 1984. It makes a case for an ecological perspective, wherein the city, its landscape and its people are Gothicized. After presenting the history of the disaster in terms of negligence, the book examines the coverage of the events as well as accounts by eyewitnesses and survivors, and the remnants, in various forms, of the disaster - the haunting - within human bodies and nature. Finally,Bhopal's Ecological Gothic describes the industrial ruins and the mobilization of protests against Union Carbide. -- Back cover.