Among the Dead Cities

Zusatztext 'A provocative and readable study ... that is the purpose of his book! to provoke our leaders! and those on whose behalf they purport to act! to ask how to wage a war by methods short of barbarism' Informationen zum Autor A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, UK. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has been a regular contributor to The Times , Financial Times , Observer , Independent on Sunday , Economist , Literary Review , New Statesman and Prospect , and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight , Today , In Our Time , Start the Week and CNN news . He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, and advises on many committees ranging from Drug Testing at Work to human rights groups. A controversial examination by one of Britain's leading philosophers of one of the most important and morally complex issues of our time Zusammenfassung A controversial examination by one of Britain's leading philosophers of one of the most important and morally complex issues of our time

Product details

• Authors: A C Grayling, A. C. Grayling, Professor A. C. Grayling
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.02.2007
• EAN: 9780747586036
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-8603-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Bilingual editions > German/English; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book; Germany, Politics & government, Ethics & moral philosophy, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Ethics and moral philosophy, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, War and defence operations, War & defence operations, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General