Body Politics across the Public/Private Boundary:

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  • HAZAMA EIJIRO
    著者所属： 東京大学文化人類学研究室 日本学術振興会

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  • 公私を架橋する身体のポリティクス
  • 公私を架橋する身体のポリティクス : ガーンディーのブラフマチャリヤの実験とサッティヤーグラハ闘争の誕生
  • コウシ オ カキョウ スル シンタイ ノ ポリティクス : ガーンディー ノ ブラフマチャリヤ ノ ジッケン ト サッティヤーグラハ トウソウ ノ タンジョウ
  • ―ガーンディーのブラフマチャリヤの実験とサッティヤーグラハ闘争の誕生―
  • Gandhi's Experiments with <i>Brahmacarya</i> and the Birth of the <i>Satyāgraha</i> Struggle

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This article explores the relationship between Gandhi's experiments with brahmacarya and his first satyāgraha struggle in South Africa（1906-1914）. Many previous works have interpreted Gandhi's satyāgraha struggle as a mere nonviolent strategy, disregarding the significance of his experiments with brahmacarya behind the struggle. A few recent works, however, have pointed out that there might have been a crucial connection between the two, but by no means did they demonstrate such an interrelation. In this article, I comparatively analyze Gandhi's five Gujarātī texts, namely, <i>Dakṣiṇ Āphrikānā Satyāgrahano Itihās, Ātmakathā, Gāndhījīno Akṣardeh, Hind Svarāj</i> and the Gujarātī columns in Indian Opinion, where Gandhi scrappily wrote about the various causal links between satyāgraha and brahmacarya. In so doing, I first show that Gandhi abruptly encountered a psycho-spiritual experience that "śakti" arose inside his body while taking the "pledge" (pratijñā, kasam) of the satāygraha struggle in the 1906 mass meeting in Johannesburg. Secondly, by examining Gandhi's "Secret Chapter" ("Guhya Prakaraṇ ") on brahmacarya published in 1913, I reveal how the proto-yogic practice of semen-retention (vīryasaṇgrah) was intimately related to his prior psycho-spiritual experience, which he had undergone while taking the "pledge." Although Gandhi became wary of an increase of his "sexual desire" (viṣaynī icchā, kām), the practice of semen-retention was still reckoned by Gandhi to be the most important part of his experiments with brahmacarya; it was believed to provide a fundamental psycho-physical strength for the satyāgraha struggle.

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  • Minamiajiakenkyu

    Minamiajiakenkyu 2017 (29), 92-123, 2017-12-31

    JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES

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