{"pk":5869,"title":"Narrative, Speech, and Action: Gandhi’s Satyagraha and the Constant Becoming of Truth","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I explore Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence, specifically his articulation and understanding of the conception of truth. For Gandhi, truth in the political sphere is not merely a correspondence between a representation and external phenomena, but is constantly in the process of becoming as the political actor \"experiments\" with different notions of truth and the actions which are derived from them. I use the notion of a narrative as opposed to scientific mode of thought in order to highlight the open-ended, constant becoming nature of Gandhi's understanding of truth in political action. I conclude by arguing that Gandhi's notion of truth widens the sphere of political action to a plurality of individual contributions and voices towards a truly nonviolent and engaged society.","language":"en","license":{"name":"All rights reserved","short_name":"Copyright","text":"© the author(s). All rights reserved.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/authors"},"keywords":[{"word":"Gandhi"},{"word":"nonviolence"},{"word":"Satyagraha"},{"word":"Arendt"},{"word":"Bakhtin"},{"word":"narrative"},{"word":"Political Theory"},{"word":"Peace and Conflict Studies"},{"word":"Social Theory"},{"word":"Cultural Theory"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/37d539hn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Justine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Parkin","name_suffix":"","institution":"UC Berkeley","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-09-08T03:40:13Z","date_accepted":"2012-09-08T03:40:13Z","date_published":"2012-12-22T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/our_buj/article/5869/galley/3610/download/"}]}