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More Than Just War - Narratives of the Just War and Military Life (Paperback)
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More Than Just War - Narratives of the Just War and Military Life (Paperback)
Series: Interventions
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This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a
critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a
literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has
leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many centuries.
This book examines the recent revival of that tradition in the
United States and Britain, arguing that it is less coherent and
comprehensive as an approach to the ethical issues arising from war
than is generally supposed, and that it is inconsistent in
important ways with the theology on which it was originally based.
A second line of criticism is mounted through close readings of
modern texts in English - from Britain, Australia and the USA -
that together constitute a more subjective, bottom-up understanding
of the moral dilemmas of military life. In this second tradition
the task of representing war is seen as more problematic, and its
rationality more questionable, than in just war discourse. Works by
William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, James Fennimore Cooper,
Stephen Crane, John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad,
Tim O'Brien and Kurt Vonnegut are featured. The book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of security studies,
military studies, theology and international relations.
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