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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 220 pages. Published in 1970. Retrospective collection of philosophical and critical essays on subject. One of the greatest - yet still largely unknown - books of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. Presents, in its First Edition format, Andrea Caffi's "Critica della Violenza" in a felicitous English translation by Raymond Rosenthal. Brilliantly prefaced with a fifteen-page Introductory Essay by his close friend and colleague, Nicola Chiaromonte. The Essay appears in this edition only. A restless, peripatetic philosopher and committed scholar-as-activist who often participated in, not just witnessed and examined, some of the momentous historical events of the 20th century (the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, the First and Second World Wars), Andrea Caffi wrote prolifically yet published very little in his lifetime because he was perpetually and restlessly on the move. This collection of essays is his single most valuable book in English. His lifelong themes are "power-as-violence" and "power-against-violence". His insistent assertion is that the means to achieve power should be just as, if not even more, ethical, "admirable" (his favorite word), and non-violent than the end, the exercise of power itself. For Andrea Caffi, the end NEVER justifies the means, in contrast to Karl Marx. This is a breakthrough idea because, aside from Simone Weil and Hannah Arendt, almost ALL other political philosophers do find justification for violence at some critical point. Caffi analyzes so-called "revolutionaries" and "radicals" as roles that are misunderstood - and are glorified - in our time, making his seminal analysis all the more salient. Think only of the eternal, un-solvable Middle East Conflict that has pitted Israelis and Palestinians as violent, mortal enemies. Andrea Caffi critiques violence as ultimately the exact opposite of power. Now, power has predominantly been seen, and achieved, in our time as inseparable from violence. Caffi's philosophy is not idealistic at all; he disavows all idealisms and ideologies as barbarisms. On the contrary, his highly original analysis is firmly grounded in "lived experience" and pragmatism. He shows us how and why violence always fails to sustain power in the end - a difficult lesson that very few, if any, political leaders in history learn. "He was a friend of Camus, among others, and in this admirably translated book, moves at his intellectual level" (Publishers Weekly). Actually, he moves at a higher level than the often intellectually challenged French writer: He was the first "critic of ideas" of modern times. An absolute "must-have" title for Andrea Caffi collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of very few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and despite its imperfection (wear, some fading, and one blemish on the white DJ) is still in fine, unread condition: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. The red cloth boards are sharp, NOT bumped. The DJ is NOT price-clipped. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. A near-fine copy. no.…