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The New Military Humanism

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Monroe, Me : Common Courage Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073299963

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The New Military Humanism by Noam Chomsky Pdf

Analyzing the NATO bombing, Noam Chomsky challenges the New Humanism. With a powerful grasp of history -- and an incisive argument about its relevance in this new era -- Chomsky peels back rhetorical claims that the United States and its allies fight for a world where those responsible for ethnic cleansing have nowhere to hide.With his uniquely powerful style, Chomsky reviews the many facts that just won't do. From administration knowledge that bombing would escalate Serb atrocities, to the opportunities for diplomacy passed over in favor of war, the facts are so numerous as to warrant a chapter on the denial syndrome: an affliction necessary to hold the official version of reality in place.

The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo

Author : Avram Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Intervention (International law)
ISBN : 8186962697

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The New Military Humanism: Lessons From Kosovo by Avram Noam Chomsky Pdf

This Is A Persuasively Argued Critique Of Nato`S Disastrous Kosovo Action. With A Powerful Grasp Of History-And An Incisive Argument About Its Relevance In This New Era-Chomsky Peels Back Rhetorical Claims That The United States And Its Allies Light For A World Where Those Responsible For Ethnic Cleansing Have Nowhere To Hide.

Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade; or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism

Author : Todd F. Davis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791482131

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Kurt Vonnegut's Crusade; or, How a Postmodern Harlequin Preached a New Kind of Humanism by Todd F. Davis Pdf

"I've worried some about why write books when presidents and senators and generals do not read them, and the university experience taught me a very good reason: you catch people before they become generals and senators and presidents, and you poison their minds with humanity. Encourage them to make a better world." — Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut's desire to save the planet from environmental and military destruction, to enact change by telling stories that both critique and embrace humanity, sets him apart from many of the postmodern authors who rose to prominence during the 1960s and 1970s. This new look at Vonnegut's oeuvre examines his insistence that writing is an "act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen." By exploring the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Vonnegut's work, Todd F. Davis demonstrates that, over the course of his long career, Vonnegut has created a new kind of humanism that not only bridges the modern and postmodern, but also offers hope for the power and possibilities of story. Davis highlights the ways Vonnegut deconstructs and demystifies the "grand narratives" of American culture while offering provisional narratives—petites histoires—that may serve as tools for daily living.

Bestial Oblivion

Author : Benjamin Bertram
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351780933

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Bestial Oblivion by Benjamin Bertram Pdf

Although war is a heterogeneous assemblage of the human and nonhuman, it nevertheless builds the illusion of human autonomy and singularity. Focusing on war and ecology, a neglected topic in early modern ecocriticism, Bestial Oblivion: War, Humanism, and Ecology in Early Modern England shows how warfare unsettles ideas of the human, yet ultimately contributes to, and is then perpetuated by, anthropocentrism. Bertram’s study of early modern warfare’s impact on human-animal and human-technology relationships draws upon posthumanist theory, animal studies, and the new materialisms, focusing on responses to the Anglo-Spanish War, the Italian Wars, the Wars of Religion, the colonization of Ireland, and Jacobean “peace.” The monograph examines a wide range of texts—essays, drama, military treatises, paintings, poetry, engravings, war reports, travel narratives—and authors—Erasmus, Machiavelli, Digges, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Coryate, Bacon—to show how an intricate web of perpetual war altered the perception of the physical environment as well as the ideologies and practices establishing what it meant to be human.

New Generation Draws the Line

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317255420

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New Generation Draws the Line by Noam Chomsky Pdf

How do we understand the role and ethics of humanitarian intervention in today’s world? This expanded and updated edition is timely as the West weighs intervention in Libyan civil war. Discussions of Libyan intervention involved the international principle of “the right to protect” (R2P). Chomsky dissects the meaning and uses of this international instrument in a new chapter. Other chapters from the book help readers understand the West’s uses and abuses of “humanitarian intervention,” which is not always what it seems, including detailed studies of East Timor and Kosovo.

Essays in Humanism

Author : Albert Einstein
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781453204597

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Essays in Humanism by Albert Einstein Pdf

The great thinker reflects on such topics as nuclear weapons, world poverty, and international affairs in this Wall Street Journal bestseller. Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly prescient topics scientist Albert Einstein discusses in this volume of collected essays from between 1931 and 1950. Written with a clear voice and a thoughtful perspective on the effects of science, economics, and politics in daily life, Einstein’s essays provide an intriguing view inside the mind of a genius addressing the philosophical challenges presented during the turbulence of the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the dawn of the Cold War. This authorized ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

What Are We Doing Here?

Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374717780

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What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson Pdf

New essays on theological, political, and contemporary themes, by the Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in her renowned novels, including Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In this new essay collection she trains her incisive mind on our modern political climate and the mysteries of faith. Whether she is investigating how the work of great thinkers about America like Emerson and Tocqueville inform our political consciousness or discussing the way that beauty informs and disciplines daily life, Robinson’s peerless prose and boundless humanity are on full display. What Are We Doing Here? is a call for Americans to continue the tradition of those great thinkers and to remake American political and cultural life as “deeply impressed by obligation [and as] a great theater of heroic generosity, which, despite all, is sometimes palpable still.”

Strategic Humanism

Author : Claudia Hauer
Publisher : Political Animal Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1895131448

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Strategic Humanism by Claudia Hauer Pdf

Strategic Humanism takes the reader through the works of Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Aristotle, laying out in clear and accessible terms their thoughts on leadership, war, and their relationship to individuals, nations, culture, and technology. In so doing, the book traces the path of ancient Greek democracy from infancy to maturity, culminating in the Athenian demise. Throughout, Hauer holds up the political, cultural, literary, and philosophical milieu of ancient Greece as a kind of looking glass to our present era of rapid technological change and democratic malaise.

Impotent Warriors

Author : Susie Kilshaw
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1845455266

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Impotent Warriors by Susie Kilshaw Pdf

From September 1990 to June 1991, the UK deployed 53,462 military personnel in the Gulf War. After the end of the conflict anecdotal reports of various disorders affecting troops who fought in the Gulf began to surface. This mysterious illness was given the name “Gulf War Syndrome” (GWS). This book is an investigation into this recently emergent illness, particularly relevant given ongoing UK deployments to Iraq, describing how the illness became a potent symbol for a plethora of issues, anxieties, and concerns. At present, the debate about GWS is polarized along two lines: there are those who think it is a unique, organic condition caused by Gulf War toxins and those who argue that it is probably a psychological condition that can be seen as part of a larger group of illnesses. Using the methods and perspective of anthropology, with its focus on nuances and subtleties, the author provides a new approach to understanding GWS, one that makes sense of the cultural circumstances, specific and general, which gave rise to the illness.

A New Generation Draws the Line

Author : Noam Chomsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Humanitarian intervention
ISBN : 1612050735

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A New Generation Draws the Line by Noam Chomsky Pdf

How do we understand the role and ethics of humanitarian intervention in today's world? This expanded and updated edition is timely as the West weighs intervention in Libyan civil war. Discussions of Libyan intervention involved the international principle of "the right to protect" (R2P). Chomsky dissects the meaning and uses of this international instrument in a new chapter. Other chapters from the book help readers understand the West's uses and abuses of "humanitarian intervention," which is not always what it seems, including detailed studies of East Timor and Kosovo.

The Year of Our Lord 1943

Author : Alan Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190864675

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The Year of Our Lord 1943 by Alan Jacobs Pdf

By early 1943, it had become increasingly clear that the Allies would win the Second World War. Around the same time, it also became increasingly clear to many Christian intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic that the soon-to-be-victorious nations were not culturally or morally prepared for their success. A war won by technological superiority merely laid the groundwork for a post-war society governed by technocrats. These Christian intellectuals-Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, W. H. Auden, and Simone Weil, among others-sought both to articulate a sober and reflective critique of their own culture and to outline a plan for the moral and spiritual regeneration of their countries in the post-war world. In this book, Alan Jacobs explores the poems, novels, essays, reviews, and lectures of these five central figures, in which they presented, with great imaginative energy and force, pictures of the very different paths now set before the Western democracies. Working mostly separately and in ignorance of one another's ideas, the five developed a strikingly consistent argument that the only means by which democratic societies could be prepared for their world-wide economic and political dominance was through a renewal of education that was grounded in a Christian understanding of the power and limitations of human beings. The Year of Our Lord 1943 is the first book to weave together the ideas of these five intellectuals and shows why, in a time of unprecedented total war, they all thought it vital to restore Christianity to a leading role in the renewal of the Western democracies.

The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy

Author : Ronald G. Witt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521764742

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The Two Latin Cultures and the Foundation of Renaissance Humanism in Medieval Italy by Ronald G. Witt Pdf

Traces the intellectual life of Italy, where humanism began a century before it influenced the rest of Europe.

Humanism: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Stephen Law
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199553648

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Humanism: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Law Pdf

Summary: Philosopher Stephen Law explains why humanism--though a rejection of religion--nevertheless provides both a moral basis and a meaning for our lives.-publisher description.

Bait and Switch

Author : Julie Mertus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135934736

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Bait and Switch by Julie Mertus Pdf

Although our era is marked by human rights rhetoric, human wrongs continue to be committed with impunity, and the idea of human rights is becoming impoverished.

The Military Enlightenment

Author : Christy L. Pichichero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501752065

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The Military Enlightenment by Christy L. Pichichero Pdf

The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and political rights, military psychology, and social justice.