3rd Edition
The Idea of War and Peace The Experience of Western Civilization
By Irving Louis Horowitz
Copyright 2007
364 Pages
by
Routledge
364 Pages
by
Routledge
364 Pages
by
Routledge
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Modern theorists and their ideas on war and peace are here presented, interpreted, and evaluated with scholarship and clarity of expression. In examining the main currents in modern social theory, the author has gone directly to the works of the leading philosophic figures. This book is a carefully documented analysis based on primary sources. Its republication in an expanded version after more... Read more
Introductory Essay Philosophical Orientation and Peace; 1: Philosophical Idealism; 1: Philosophic Dimensions of War and Peace; 2: Alfred North Whitehead: Metaphysical Harmonies; 3: Jacques Maritain: The Thomist World State; 4: George Santayana: Aristocratic Pax Romana; 5: Tolstoy and Gandhi: Pacifist Dreams; 6: Bertrand Russell: Man against Man; 2: Philosophical Realism; 7: Vladimir Lenin: Historical Visions; 8: Emery Reves: Universal Commonweals; 9: Albert Einstein: Humanism in Praise of Peace; 10: Kirtley F. Mather: Peace through Abundance; 11: William James and John Dewey: The Pragmatic Acquiescence; 12: Ralph Barton Perry: Universal Individualism; 3: Beyond Idealism and Realism: 1956-2006; 13: An Integrated Theory of Peace and War; 14: The Art and Craft of Scientific Warfare; 15: War, Peace and Democracy; 16: The Changing Anatomy of Terror
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Irving Horowitz
