Ramin Jahanbegloo: 15 books
India Analysed
Sudhir Kakar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Based on interviews of Sudhir Kakar by Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo, India Analysed is a journey into Kakar’s mind—his fertile and unpredictable ways of thinking, and the essential humanism which all his writings signify—recounting the life and ideas of Kakar in his own words. In the...
Talking Architecture
Raj Rewal in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Talking Architecture is a part of the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s conversations with prominent Indian intellectuals. This revised edition presents additional visuals and an extended dialogue between Jahanbegloo and Raj Rewal, one of India’s leading architects. The conversation flows effortlessly...
by Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
An illuminating and witty dialogue with one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Ramin Jahanbegloo's interview with Isaiah Berlin grew into a series of five conversations which offer an intimate view of Berlin and his ideas. They include discussions on pluralism and liberty...
Talking History
Romila Thapar in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo, with the participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
In a series of candid conversations, Romila Thapar, a widely read, discussed, and cited historian of our times, muses on a range of issues that impact history writing in modern India. Apart from exploring Thapar’s far-reaching influence as an authority on the history of early India, Talking...
Talking India
Ashis Nundy in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
This book is a series of comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo at Tehran and organized over six sessions. The interviewer questions Nundy within the context of his own 'Indian-ness' as also his affinity (and criticisms) for things Indian: whether it be thought, religion, or pluralistic...
Talking Sociology
Dipankar Gupta in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation of being one of India’s leading public intellectuals. Talking Sociology provides a complete panorama of Gupta’s life and works and his contribution...
Talking Politics
Bhikhu Parekh in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
One of the most distinguished political philosophers of our time, British-Indian academic and peer Lord Bhikhu Parekh's work continues to deeply influence our understanding of identity, politics, and multiculturalism. Based on a series of interviews of Bhikhu Parekh by Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo,...
Time Will Say Nothing
A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Sorbonne-educated and the author of almost 30 books, Ramin Jahanbegloo, a philosopher of non-violence in the tradition of Tolstoy and Gandhi, was arrested and detained in Iran's notorious Evin Prison in 2006. A petition against his imprisonment was initiated, with Umberto Eco, Jurgen Habermas, and...
The Revolution of Values
The Origins of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Moral and Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
In this book, Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo elucidates the central concepts in the moral and political thought of Martin Luther King, Jr., bringing out the subtlety, potency, and universal importance of his concepts of Agape love and non-violence, the Beloved Community and revolution of values, and...
Gadflies in the Public Space
A Socratic Legacy of Philosophical Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The concept of disobedient consciousness and the rebellious Socratic mind that grows out of this book is, above all, a product of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s life meetings with the two apparently contradictory worlds of philosophy and politics. More precisely, it is the result of approaching the public...
by Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Non-violent movements, under figures like Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, led to some of the great social changes of the 20th century, and some argue it offers solutions for this century's problems. This book explores non-violence from its roots in diverse religious and philosophical traditions to its role in bringing social and political change today.
Harmony and Exchange
Toward a Legoic Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book examines two main concepts – harmony and exchange – in relation to the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of human life. As such, what differentiates humans from other living species are the possibility of understanding a context and the willingness to collaborate and...
by Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
The father of Indian independence, Gandhi was also a political theorist who challenged mainstream ideas. Sovereignty, he said, depends on the consent of citizens willing to challenge the state nonviolently when it acts immorally. The culmination of the inner struggle to recognize one’s duty to act is the ultimate “Gandhian moment.”
The Global Gandhi
Essays in Comparative Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This book is a comparative study of Gandhi’s philosophy and analyzes his relevance to modern political thought. It traces the intellectual origins of Gandhi’s nonviolence as well as his engagement with Western thinkers – ancient as well as his contemporaries. The author discusses Gandhi’s...
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