Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth

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Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth

Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth

Name: Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth
ISBN: 9781498502191

Domenico Losurdo, Gregory Elliott

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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.”

Категории:

History - World History

Год:

2015

Издательство:

Lexington Books

Язык:

english

Страницы:

246

ISBN 10:

1498502199