Just War Thinkers Revisited

Daniel R. Brunstetter

ISBN 10: 1032550325 / ISBN 13: 9781032550329

Editore: Taylor and Francis Ltd, GB, 2024

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This book comprises essays that focus on a range of thinkers who challenge the boundaries of the just war tradition.The ethics of war scholarship has become a rigid and highly disciplined activity, closely associated with a very particular canon of thinkers. This volume moves beyond this by presenting thinkers not typically regarded as part of that canon but who have interesting and potentially important things to say about the ethics of war. The book presents 20 profile essays on an eclectic cast of heretics, humanists, and radicals, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, who lived through and theorized about violence. The book asks how ethics of war scholars might benefit from engaging with them. Some of these thinkers engage directly with-to augment or criticize-the just war tradition, while others contribute to military thinking across the ages, pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable in war. Many proffer alternative moral frameworks regarding the legitimacy of political violence. The present volume thus invites scholars to reconsider the ethics of war in a way that challenges the standard delineation between just war theory, realism, and pacifism and to reflect on how those positions might inform our own approach to these matters.This book will be of much interest to students of just war theory, ethics of war, war studies, and International Relations.

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• Titolo: Just War Thinkers Revisited
• Editore: Taylor and Francis Ltd, GB
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1032550325
• ISBN 13: 9781032550329
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 610 grammi

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This book comprises essays that focus on a range of thinkers who challenge the boundaries of the just war tradition.

The ethics of war scholarship has become a rigid and highly disciplined activity, closely associated with a very particular canon of thinkers. This volume moves beyond this by presenting thinkers not typically regarded as part of that canon but who have interesting and potentially important things to say about the ethics of war. The book presents 20 profile essays on an eclectic cast of heretics, humanists, and radicals, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, who lived through and theorized about violence. The book asks how ethics of war scholars might benefit from engaging with them. Some of these thinkers engage directly with―to augment or criticize―the just war tradition, while others contribute to military thinking across the ages, pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable in war. Many proffer alternative moral frameworks regarding the legitimacy of political violence. The present volume thus invites scholars to reconsider the ethics of war in a way that challenges the standard delineation between just war theory, realism, and pacifism and to reflect on how those positions might inform our own approach to these matters.

This book will be of much interest to students of just war theory, ethics of war, war studies, and International Relations.

Informazioni sull'autore

Daniel R. Brunstetter is Professor in Political Science at University of California, Irvine, the United States. He is the author of two books and editor of two volumes, including Just War Thinkers (2018).

Cian O’Driscoll is Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. He is the author of two books and editor of three volumes, including Just War Thinkers (2018).