Pacifism In The United States

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400878376

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Pacifism in the United States by Peter Brock Pdf

Called "a pioneer work of the first importance" by Staughton Lynd, this book traces the history of pacifism in America from colonial times to the start of World War I. The author describes how the immigrant peace sects-Quaker, Mennonite, and Dunker -faced the challenges of a hostile environment. The peace societies that sprang up after 1815 form the subject of the next section, with particular attention focused upon the American Peace Society and Garrison's New England Non-Resistance Society. A series of chapters on the reactions of these sects and societies to the Civil War, the neglect of pacifism in the postwar period, and the beginnings of a renewal in the years before the outbreak of war in Europe bring the book to a close. The emphasis on the institutional aspects of the movement is balanced throughout by a rich mine of accounts about the experiences of individual pacifists. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Robert J. Fogelin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691202389

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Taking Wittgenstein at His Word by Robert J. Fogelin Pdf

Taking Wittgenstein at His Word is an experiment in reading organized around a central question: What kind of interpretation of Wittgenstein's later philosophy emerges if we adhere strictly to his claims that he is not in the business of presenting and defending philosophical theses and that his only aim is to expose persistent conceptual misunderstandings that lead to deep philosophical perplexities? Robert Fogelin draws out the therapeutic aspects of Wittgenstein's later work by closely examining his account of rule-following and how he applies the idea in the philosophy of mathematics. The first of the book's two parts focuses on rule-following, Wittgenstein's "paradox of interpretation," and his naturalistic response to this paradox, all of which are persistent and crucial features of his later philosophy. Fogelin offers a corrective to the frequent misunderstanding that the paradox of interpretation is a paradox about meaning, and he emphasizes the importance of Wittgenstein's often undervalued appeals to natural responses. The second half of the book examines how Wittgenstein applies his reflections on rule-following to the status of mathematical propositions, proofs, and objects, leading to remarkable, demystifying results. Taking Wittgenstein at His Word shows that what Wittgenstein claims to be doing and what he actually does are much closer than is often recognized. In doing so, the book underscores fundamental—but frequently underappreciated—insights about Wittgenstein's later philosophy.

Author : Scott H Bennett
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815630034

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Radical Pacifism by Scott H Bennett Pdf

This deeply researched book is the first history of the War Resisters League, an organization that represents the major vehicle of secular radical pacifism in the United States. Besides opposing all U. S. wars and championing conscientious objection to these wars, Scott H. Bennett shows how the WRL—led by its colorful members—functioned as a “movement halfway house,” assisting and influencing a variety of social reform groups and campaigns. He devotes special attention to WWII conscientious objectors (COs) who staged dramatic wartime work and hunger strikes in Civilian Public Service camps and prisons against Jim Crow, censorship, conscription, and other policies. These radical COs moved the postwar WRL in new directions—and transformed radical pacifism. By recovering the important links between the WRL and the peace, civil rights, civil liberties, and antinuclear movements, Bennett demonstrates the social relevance and political effectiveness of radical pacifism. He emphasizes the WRL’s most important legacy: its promotion, legitimization, and Americanization of Gandhian nonviolent direct action, which infused the postwar peace and justice movements.

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400878734

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Radical Pacifists in Antebellum America by Peter Brock Pdf

Selected portions from Pacifism in the United States: From the Colonial Era to the First World War Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Charles Chatfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807054275

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For Peace and Justice by Charles Chatfield Pdf

Author : Ward Churchill,Michael Ryan
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629633299

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Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill,Michael Ryan Pdf

Pacifism as Pathology has long since emerged as a dissident classic. Originally written during the mid-1980s, the seminal essay “Pacifism as Pathology” was prompted by veteran activist Ward Churchill’s frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing—and deliberately self-neutralizing—”hegemony of nonviolence” on the North American left. The essay’s publication unleashed a raging debate among activists in both the U.S. and Canada, a significant result of which was Michael Ryan’s penning of a follow-up essay reinforcing Churchill’s premise that nonviolence, at least as the term is popularly employed by white “progressives,” is inherently counterrevolutionary, adding up to little more than a manifestation of its proponents’ desire to maintain their relatively high degrees of socioeconomic privilege and thereby serving to stabilize rather than transform the prevailing relations of power. This short book challenges the pacifist movement’s heralded victories—Gandhi in India, 1960s antiwar activists, even Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights movement—suggesting that their success was in spite of, rather than because of, their nonviolent tactics. Churchill also examines the Jewish Holocaust, pointing out that the overwhelming response of Jews was nonviolent, but that when they did use violence they succeeded in inflicting significant damage to the nazi war machine and saving countless lives. As relevant today as when they first appeared, Churchill’s and Ryan’s trailblazing efforts were first published together in book form in 1998. Now, along with the preface to that volume by former participant in armed struggle/political prisoner Ed Mead, postscripts by both Churchill and Ryan, and a powerful new foreword by leading oppositionist intellectual Dylan Rodríguez, these vitally important essays are being released in a fresh edition.

Author : International Conference On The Pacifist Impulse I,Peter Brock,International Conference on the Pacifist Impulse in Historical perspec
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802007775

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The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective by International Conference On The Pacifist Impulse I,Peter Brock,International Conference on the Pacifist Impulse in Historical perspec Pdf

This volume of twenty-three essays appears in recognition of the emergence of peace history as a relatively new and coherent field of learning. ... these essays were presented at an international conference "The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective". ... Together the essays in this book explore the ideas and activities of persons and groups who, for two millennia, have rejected war and urged non-violent means of settling conflicts

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400867493

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Pacifism in Europe to 1914 by Peter Brock Pdf

In a companion volume to Pacifism in the United States, Peter Brock surveys the history of the pacifist movement in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the First World War. His detailed narrative is directed to the activities—and the beliefs that motivated them—of these sects in particular: the Czech Brethren of the late Middle Ages; the radical Anabaptists of the Protestant Reformation; their less militant offshoot, the Mennonites; the Quakers of Cromwell's England; and the Tolstoyans of nineteenth-century Russia. Mr. Brock concludes his account with a working definition of normative pacifism, a typology of pacifism, and a discussion of the factors present in the genesis and decay of pacifist groups. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Perry Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015046892116

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Two Kingdoms, Two Loyalties by Perry Bush Pdf

In the postwar era, Mennonites were no longer "the quiet in the land"; they began to articulate publicly their concerns about such issues as the draft, the civil rights movement, and the Vietnam War.".

Author : Patricia Appelbaum
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807889763

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Kingdom to Commune by Patricia Appelbaum Pdf

American religious pacifism is usually explained in terms of its practitioners' ethical and philosophical commitments. Patricia Appelbaum argues that Protestant pacifism, which constituted the religious center of the large-scale peace movement in the United States after World War I, is best understood as a culture that developed dynamically in the broader context of American religious, historical, and social currents. Exploring piety, practice, and material religion, Appelbaum describes a surprisingly complex culture of Protestant pacifism expressed through social networks, iconography, vernacular theology, individual spiritual practice, storytelling, identity rituals, and cooperative living. Between World War I and the Vietnam War, she contends, a paradigm shift took place in the Protestant pacifist movement. Pacifism moved from a mainstream position to a sectarian and marginal one, from an embrace of modernity to skepticism about it, and from a Christian center to a purely pacifist one, with an informal, flexible theology. The book begins and ends with biographical profiles of two very different pacifists, Harold Gray and Marjorie Swann. Their stories distill the changing religious culture of American pacifism revealed in Kingdom to Commune.

Author : Peter Brock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Pacifism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081398096

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The Roots of War Resistance by Peter Brock Pdf

Author : Mark Douglas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108476485

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Christian Pacifism for an Environmental Age by Mark Douglas Pdf

Provides a new understanding of the traditions of Christian pacifism in order to address wars in a warming world.

Author : Robert L. Holmes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474279840

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Pacifism by Robert L. Holmes Pdf

In a world riven with conflict, violence and war, this book proposes a philosophical defense of pacifism. It argues that there is a moral presumption against war and unless that presumption is defeated, war is unjustified. Leading philosopher of non-violence Robert Holmes contends that neither just war theory nor the rationales for recent wars (Vietnam, the Gulf War, the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars) defeat that presumption, hence that war in the modern world is morally unjustified. A detailed, comprehensive and elegantly argued text which guides both students and scholars through the main debates (Just War Theory and double effect to name a few) clearly but without oversimplifying the complexities of the issues or historical examples.

Author : Andrew Fiala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317271970

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The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence by Andrew Fiala Pdf

Interest in pacifism—an idea with a long history in philosophical thought and in several religious traditions—is growing. The Routledge Handbook of Pacifism and Nonviolence is the first comprehensive reference designed to introduce newcomers and researchers to the many varieties of pacifism and nonviolence, to their history and philosophy, and to pacifism’s most serious critiques. The volume offers 32 brand new chapters from the world’s leading experts across a diverse range of fields, who together provide a broad discussion of pacifism and nonviolence in connection with virtue ethics, capital punishment, animal ethics, ecology, queer theory, and feminism, among other areas. This Handbook is divided into four sections: (1) Historical and Tradition-Specific Considerations, (2) Conceptual and Moral Considerations, (3) Social and Political Considerations, and (4) Applications. It concludes with an Afterword by James Lawson, one of the icons of the nonviolent American Civil Rights movement. The text will be invaluable to scholars and students, as well as to activists and general readers interested in peace, nonviolence, and critical perspectives on war and violence.

Author : Dale W. Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0871781085

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Biblical Pacifism by Dale W. Brown Pdf