This book presents an original understanding of Arendt in the context of comparative political theory. The author discusses Arendt's acute and perceptive view of violence as well as practical applications…

This book presents a solid introduction to nonviolence as a mode of thinking and a mode of life, but also as a strategy of self-defence and social and political transformation…

In 2006, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a Sorbonne-educated philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran’s notorious Evin prison. This is his story.

Talking Philosophy is as much a recollection of Sorabjis childhood and his scholarly life at Oxford as it is a philosophical reflection on issues as varied and complex as whether…

This book interprets the ideas and concepts that characterize the works of Albert Camus for our contemporary times. It investigates Camus’s ‘revolted compassion’ as an outsider and a philosopher-writer who…

This book is a comparative study of Gandhi’s philosophy and analyses his relevance to modern political thought. It traces the intellectual origins of Gandhi’s non-violence as well as his engagement…

This book suggests a link between the citizen-philosopher Socrates and the radical, disobedient, and nonviolent Socrates. Ramin Jahanbegloo explains how these two complementary characteristics were transmitted to nonviolent reformers and…

What do we mean by nonviolence? What can nonviolence achieve? Are there limits to nonviolence and, if so, what are they? These are the questions the Iranian political philosopher and…