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001 2010012041
003 DLC
005 20110125082707.0
008 100322s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010012041
020 $a9780231701983 (alk. paper)
020 $a0231701985 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn569552446
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050 00 $aB105.W3$bC65 2010
082 00 $a355.0201$222
100 1 $aCoker, Christopher.
245 10 $aBarbarous philosophers :$breflections on the nature of war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg /$cChristopher Coker.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc2010.
300 $avi, 278 p. ;$c23 cm.
505 0 $aRousseau's complaint -- Dialectics of warfare : war and peace -- Pascal's rules -- Why war? Why war changes the world and is itself transformed by the changes it promotes (Heraclitus of Ephesus c.540-480 BC) -- War and human ambition : why the rules of war are paradoxical (Thucydides c.460-400 BC) -- War and the soul : why war is trinitarian (Plato (1) c.427-347 BC) -- War and art : why war encourages imitation (Plato (2)) -- War and politics : why war is a continuation of politics by other means, and not its negation (Aristotle 384-322 BC) -- War as pacification ; why war can be seen as policing (Tacitus AD 54-120) -- War and peace : why peace is a contested concept (St. Augustine AD 354-430) -- War and social norms ; why we still distrust mercenaries (Machiavelli 1469-1527) -- War and human nature : why war (unlike warfare) encourages competitiveness, not competition (Thomas Hobbes 1588-1679) -- War and battle : why battles are rarely 'decisive' (Montesquieu 1689-1755) -- War and ethics : why we should respect our enemies even if they don't respect us (Immanuel Kant 1724-1804) -- War and history : why war is often 'ethical' (or progressive) (Hegel 1770-1831) -- War and technology : why weapons have a social history (Marx 1818-83) -- War and culture : why war has its own 'cultural grammar' (Engels 1820-1895) -- War and the warrior : why the warrior is a human type (Nietzsche 1844-1900) -- War and the future : why war is not a science (Heisenberg 1901-76).
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650 0 $aWar (Philosophy)$xHistory$vSources.