Mahatma’s “True Civilisation”: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi as a Radical Critic of Civilisation

Examines the criticism of civilisation by M.K. Gandhi, reveals the main ideas of this philosopher and their links to the ideas of Henry David Thoreau and Leo Tolstoy. The author argues that there is a sort of structural similarity in Gandhi’s ideas of civilisation and representations of Cynics and Taoists, as well as in the radical civilisation criticism of the second half of the 20th century. Putting Gandhi’s criticism study within the cross­cultural context the author shows that this is not about succession, but only about the universality of basic features that are reproduced in different cultural contexts.