Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Introduction
Chapter One: Bartolom de las Casas' Critique of War and Vision of Peace
Chapter Two: The Heart of the Daodejing: Non-violent Personhood
Chapter Three: The Augustinian Legacy of Divine Peace and Earthly War
Chapter Four: Pacifism or Bourgeois Pacifism? Huxley, Orwell, and Caudwell
Chapter Five: Julien Freund on War and Peace: Mitigated Realism
Chapter Six: Revolutionary War and Peace
Chapter Seven: Catastrophe and Conversion: Culture, Conflict, and Violence in the Hermeneutics of Ren Girard.
Chapter Eight: Learning for Peace: The Montessori Way
Chapter Nine: Peace and Violence in Poor Rural Schools in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Synopsis
Peace and War: Historical, Philosophical, and Anthropological Perspectives is an accessible, higher-level critical discussion of philosophical commentaries on the nature of peace and war. It introduces and analyses various philosophies of peace and war, and their continuing theoretical and practical relevance for peace studies and conflict resolution. Using a combination of both historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives, the book is at once eclectic in its approach and broad in its inquiry of these enduring phenomena of human existence.