Lexington Books
Pages: 246
Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-1-4985-0219-1 • Hardback • April 2015 • $128.00 • (£98.00)
978-1-4985-0221-4 • Paperback • April 2017 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-1-4985-0220-7 • eBook • April 2015 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Domenico Losurdo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Urbino.
Introduction: From the Broken Promises of Perpetual Peace to Non-Violence
1. Christian Abolitionism and Pacifism in the USA
2. From Pacifist Abolitionism to Gandhi and Tolstoy
3. Gandhi and the Socialist Movement: Violence as Discrimination?
4. The Anti-Colonialist Movement, Lenin’s Party, and Gandhi’s Party
5. Non-Violence in the Face of Fascism and the Second World War
6. Martin Luther King as the “Black Gandhi” and Afro-American Radicalism
7. Gandhi’s Global Reputation and the Construction of the Non-Violent Pantheon
8. From Gandhi to the Dalai Lama?
9. “Non-Violence," the “Color Revolutions," and the Great Game
10. A Realistic Non-Violence in a World Prey to Nuclear Catastrophe