Non-Violence

A History Beyond the Myth

AvDomenico Losurdo

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published in 1921 by Walter Benjamin, twentieth century philosophy has been committed to the criticism of violence, even when it has claimed to follow noble ends. But what do we know of the dilemmas, of the “betrayals,” of the disappointments and tragedies which the movement of non-violence has suffered? This book tells a fascinating history: from the American Christian organizations in the first decades of the nineteenth century who wanted to eliminate slavery and war in a non-violent way, to the protagonists of movements—Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Capitini, M. L. King, the Dalai Lama—who either for idealism or for political calculation flew the flag of non-violence, up to the leaders of today’s “color revolutions.”

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-24
Mått:150 x 231 x 19 mm
Vikt:372 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:246
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498502214
Översättare:Gregory C. Elliott

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Domenico Losurdo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Urbino.

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If the characteristic feature of the critical thinking is the questioning of the mythologies that affect the current opinions, the recent book of Domenico Losurdo is an excellent example of this school of thought. Now Losurdo engages in the deconstruction, never prejudicially hostile but rather full of genuine sympathy for the essential core, of non-violence. In order to achieve this goal he delivers a detailed history of the pacifist and non-violent theories and practices, starting with Kant's idea of perpetual peace and the with the first pacifist movements in the USA of the nineteenth century. An important and timely book in a period of increasing danger of war!

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Introduction: From the Broken Promises of Perpetual Peace to Non-Violence1. Christian Abolitionism and Pacifism in the USA2. From Pacifist Abolitionism to Gandhi and Tolstoy3. Gandhi and the Socialist Movement: Violence as Discrimination?4. The Anti-Colonialist Movement, Lenin’s Party, and Gandhi’s Party5. Non-Violence in the Face of Fascism and the Second World War6. Martin Luther King as the “Black Gandhi” and Afro-American Radicalism7. Gandhi’s Global Reputation and the Construction of the Non-Violent Pantheon8. From Gandhi to the Dalai Lama?9. “Non-Violence," the “Color Revolutions," and the Great Game10. A Realistic Non-Violence in a World Prey to Nuclear Catastrophe