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Non-Violence - A History Beyond the Myth (Hardcover)
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Non-Violence - A History Beyond the Myth (Hardcover)
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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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