The University of Tubingen’s Alfons Auer Ethics Prize this year goes to Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies Leela Gandhi, in honor in particular of her innovative work on postcolonial ethics and political theory. A descendent of Mahatma Gandhi, she has drawn on his approach to develop a creative ethics that critically and constructively works towards new forms of non-violence and surmounting the losses and injuries left by colonialism even in postcolonial worlds.
As an outstanding thinker and open-minded debater, her work is also of fundamental significance to Christian theological ethics, in the view of the Faculty of Catholic Theology. ...
