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Book Summary
We see nonviolent resistance all over today's world, from Egypt's Tahrir Square
to New York Occupy. Although we think of the last century as one marked by wars
and violent conflict, in fact it was just as much a century of nonviolence as
the achievements of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. and peaceful
protests like the one that removed Ferdinand Marcos from the Philippines clearly
demonstrate. But what is nonviolence? What makes a campaign a nonviolent one,
and how does it work? What values does it incorporate?
In this unique study, Todd May, a philosopher who has himself participated in
campaigns of nonviolent resistance,
ISBN-13
9780745671192
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
Polity
Publishing Date
2015-03-16
Total Pages
264
Nonviolent Resistance: A Philosophical Introduction
We see nonviolent resistance all over today's world, from Egypt's Tahrir Square
to New York Occupy. Although we think of the last century as one marked by wars
and violent conflict, in fact it was just as much a century of nonviolence as
the achievements of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. and peaceful
protests like the one that removed Ferdinand Marcos from the Philippines clearly
demonstrate. But what is nonviolence? What makes a campaign a nonviolent one,
and how does it work? What values does it incorporate?
In this unique study, Todd May, a philosopher who has himself participated in
campaigns of nonviolent resistance,