Download e-book for kindle: Non-Violence: A History Beyond the Myth by Domenico Losurdo,Gregory Elliott

By Domenico Losurdo,Gregory Elliott

We comprehend of the blood and tears provoked by way of the tasks of transformation of the realm via warfare or revolution. ranging from the essay released in 1921 through Walter Benjamin, 20th century philosophy has been devoted to the feedback of violence, even if it has claimed to stick to noble ends. yet what can we be aware of of the dilemmas, of the “betrayals,” of the disappointments and tragedies which the flow of non-violence has suffered? This ebook tells a desirable heritage: from the yank Christian organisations within the first many years of the 19th century who desired to dispose of slavery and struggle in a non-violent method, to the protagonists of movements—Thoreau, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Capitini, M. L. King, the Dalai Lama—who both for idealism or for political calculation flew the flag of non-violence, as much as the leaders of today’s “color revolutions.”

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