Alberto Castelli

The Peace Discourse in Europe, 1900-1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book charts ideas European intellectuals (mostly from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) put forward to solve the problem of war during the first half of the 20th century: a period that began with the Anglo-Boer war and that ended with the explosion of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9781138490000
• ISBN-10: 1138490008
• Artikelnr.: 53690707

Autorenporträt

Alberto Castelli is Associate Professor of the History of Political Ideas at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I 1900-1914: ideas and history, the nineteenth-century legacy of optimism
Chapter 1: Peace and patriotism: Ernesto Teodoro Moneta
Chapter 2: Peace, the free market and the strength of financial advantage: Norman Angell
Chapter 3: "Do not avenge yourselves against those who do evil": Leo Tolstoy
Chapter 4: Against militarism
Part II Inside the war (1914-1915)
Chapter 5: Apologies for violence
Chapter 6: Rhetoric of peace
Chapter 7: Planning the future peace
Part III Seeking a new European order: projects for unifying the continent in the interwar period
Chapter 8: From war to projects for European unity
Chapter 9: For a new Europe
Part IV Critique of violence: politics, revolution and religion
Chapter 10: Peace and war in Max Scheler
Chapter 11: The problem of force: Simone Weil
Chapter 12: Thinking outside pochlitics: Andrea Caffi
Chapter 13: Bart de Ligt and the true revolution
Chapter 14: Aldo Capitini: elements of a non-violent experience