Peace Discourse in Europe, 1900-1945

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alberto Castelli, Alberto (University of Ferrara Castelli
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2018
• EAN: 9781138490000
• ISBN: 978-1-138-49000-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, First World War, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Social & political philosophy, Fascism & Nazism, Second World War, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Diplomacy, c 1910 to c 1919, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Far-right political ideologies and movements, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Peace studies & conflict resolution, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I