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War

Violence and Technics in the West

AvEmanuele Severino,Giulio Goggi

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Del i serien Works of Emanuele Severino

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The first English translation of Emanuele Severino’s provocative analysis of the philosophy behind war in the West. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from Heraclitus to 20th-century grassroots movements, Italy’s foremost philosopher calls for a new way of thinking that could lead the West to perpetual peace. War, for Severino, is not merely the manifestation of conflict through violence to resolve disputes between nations or fractions. Rather it is a mode of thought deeply embedded in the foundations of Western civilisation. Highlighting the divisive and isolating mechanisms that the West uses to conceptualize their bases of power, War shows that this divisive thought is so intrinsic to Western philosophy that even critiques of war are warlike. For peace to be possible, we need more then ceasefires; we need a fundamental re-evaluation of the history of Western thought. Originally written in the geopolitical context of the 1990s, Severino’s text retains an extraordinary urgency at a time when the reality of war seems increasingly insistent. Bringing this relevance to focus, this volume includes a comprehensive introduction by translator Federico Divino, which carefully contextualises War historically and politically, whilst also situating it in relation to Severino’s wider philosophical oeuvre. An accessible book, free from the more complex logical and metaphysical lexicons central to some of Severino’s other works, this is a must-read for anyone interested in why war happens and what may be needed to stop it.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-09
Mått:152 x 232 x 14 mm
Vikt:220 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Works of Emanuele Severino
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350543515
Översättare:Divino, Federico, Divino, Federico (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

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Emanuele Severino (1929 –2020) was an Italian philosopher. An original thinker and public intellectual, he is considered one of the most important Italian philosophers of the 20th century.Federico Divino is a Researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has served as Professor for the Master in Death Studies at the University of Padua, Italy, and is currently completing dual PhDs in Transcultural Studies (University of Bergamo, Italy) and Social Sciences (University of Antwerp, Belgium).

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In War, Severino delves into the undergrowth of events, tracing the phenomenon back to its metaphysical roots that hark back to the dawn of Greek philosophy. Although the text was written immediately after the great crisis of 1989, it retains its power, which unfolds in the radicalism of a philosophical analysis that shares Nietzsche's sense of untimeliness, whereby only by going against one's own time and the dominant concepts that shape it, is it possible to reveal its essence.

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Series Editor ForewordIntroduction, Federico Divino1. War and the Western Soul2. War as ‘Function’3. The Rejection of War4. Duumvirate and Grassroots Movement5. Flesh and Spirit6. The Logic of Isolation7. Plato and the Division of Labour8. Eros, Thanatos: Plato and War9. The Condemnation of Violence10. Victorious Violence and Defeated Violence11. Medicine as the Disease12. Violence and Dialogue13. The Violence of Dialogue14. Original Violence15. The Peace of the Diseased16. Logic of Tension17. In Praise of Folly18. War and Pacifism19. Bipolarity, Revolution Disarmament20. The Eye of the Needle21. The Demon and the DestinyNotesIndex