Mohandas K. Gandhi: Citizenship and Community for an Industrial Age

For Mohandas K. Gandhi, questions of technology were integral to his overall utopian vision. His future for India & for the world at large rested on the belief that technology, along with all the instrumentalities of society & culture, could be judged on the basis of their continuation to sw...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Bulletin of science, technology & society technology & society, 2003-06, Vol.23 (3), p.192-200
Main Author: Hunt, Robert W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Appropriate Technologies
Freedom
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
Social Development
Utopias
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:For Mohandas K. Gandhi, questions of technology were integral to his overall utopian vision. His future for India & for the world at large rested on the belief that technology, along with all the instrumentalities of society & culture, could be judged on the basis of their continuation to swaraj -- dimensions of individual & community freedom. He was pragmatic; he changed notably over time in his specific views of "appropriate" technology & institutions. But his basic vision of the good society endured, being part of the sense of who he was, & what he was to do, for the concluding decades of his long life. 30 References. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications, Inc., copyright 2003.]
ISSN:0270-4676
DOI:10.1177/0270467603253963