Man's Peril, 1954-55

Man's Peril, 1954-55
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 796
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ISBN-10 : 0415094240
ISBN-13 : 9780415094245
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Man's Peril, 1954-55 by : Bertrand Russell

This volume signals reinvigoration of Russell the public campaigner and captures the essence of Russell's thinking about nuclear weapons and the Cold War in the mid 1950s.

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 229
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ISBN-10 : 9780192695369
ISBN-13 : 0192695363
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age by : Maria Anna Mariani

Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander explores the overlooked position of the bystander in the Nuclear Age by focusing on the Italian situation as a paradigmatic case. Host to hundreds of American atomic weapons while lacking a nuclear arsenal of its own, Italy's status was an ambiguous one: that of an unwilling—and in many ways passive—accomplice. Inspired by Seamus Heaney's dictum that "there is no such thing as innocent by-standing," the book frames Italy's fraught mix of implication and powerlessness not only as a geopolitical question, but as a way to rethink the role of the sidelined intellectual in the face of mass extinction. Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age includes discrete chapters on the major Italian intellectuals of the time: Italo Calvino, Alberto Moravia, Elsa Morante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Leonardo Sciascia. Conscious of their own political marginalization, these authors address the atomic question through a wide range of experimental forms, approaching the nearly unthinkable theme in allusive and oblique ways. Often dismissed as disengaged, inconsistent, or merely playful, these works demand instead a political reading capable of recognizing their confrontation with the paradoxes of the nuclear age.

A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: Serial publications, 1890-1990

A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: Serial publications, 1890-1990
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Total Pages : 586
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ISBN-10 : 0415109132
ISBN-13 : 9780415109130
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis A Bibliography of Bertrand Russell: Serial publications, 1890-1990 by : Kenneth Blackwell

Provides for the first time a full, descriptive bibliography of Russell's writings. Textually orientated, it will guide the scholar, collector and the general reader to the authoritative editions of Russell's works.

Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57

Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 772
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ISBN-10 : 9780415358378
ISBN-13 : 041535837X
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57 by : Bertrand Russell

Détente or Destruction, 1955-57 continues publication of Routledge's multi-volume critical edition of Bertrand Russell's shorter writings. Between September 1955 and November 1957 Russell published some sixty-one articles, reviews, statements, contributions to books and letters to editors, over fifty of which are contained in this volume. The texts, several of them hitherto unpublished, reveal the deepening of Russell's commitment to the anti-nuclear struggle, upon which he embarked in the previous volume of Collected Papers (Man's Peril, 1954-55). Continuing with the theme of nuclear peril, this volume contains discussion of nuclear weapons, world peace, prospects for disarmament and British-Soviet friendship against the backdrop of the Cold War. One of the key papers in this volume is Russell's message to the inaugural conference of the Pugwash movement, which Russell was instrumental in launching and which became an influential, independent forum of East-West scientific cooperation and counsel on issues as an internationally agreed nuclear test-ban. In addition to the issues of war and peace, Russell, now in his eighties, continued to take an interest in a wide variety of themes. Russell not only addresses older controversies over nationalism and empire, religious belief and American civil liberties, he also confronts head-on the new and pressing matters of armed intervention in Hungary and Suez, and of the manufacture and testing of the British hydrogen bomb. This volume includes seven interviews ranging from East-West Relations after the Geneva conference to a Meeting with Russell.

Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9780374528201
ISBN-13 : 0374528209
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Bertrand Russell by : Alan Ryan

Ryan (politics, Princeton U.) concentrates on Russell's activities as a polemicist, agitator, educator and popularizer, tracing the evolution of his moral philosophy beginning with his fervid opposition to WWI. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Reconciliation Road

Reconciliation Road
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 9781789207019
ISBN-13 : 1789207010
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Reconciliation Road by : Benedikt Schoenborn

Among postwar political leaders, West German Chancellor Willy Brandt played one of the most significant roles in reconciling Germans with other Europeans and in creating the international framework that enabled peaceful reunification in 1990. Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of Brandt’s Ostpolitik from its inception until the end of the Cold War through the lens of reconciliation. Here, Benedikt Schoenborn gives us a Brandt who passionately insisted on a gradual reduction of Cold War hostility and a lasting European peace, while remaining strategically and intellectually adaptable in a way that exemplified the ‘imaginativeness of history’.

Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy

Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : 9789004340176
ISBN-13 : 9004340173
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy by :

From 1957 onwards, the "Pugwash Conferences" brought together elite scientists from across ideological and political divides to work towards disarmament. Through a series of national case studies - Austria, China, Czechoslovakia, East and West Germany, the US and USSR – this volume offers a critical reassessment of the development and work of “Pugwash” nationally, internationally, and as a transnational forum for Track II diplomacy. This major new collection reveals the difficulties that Pugwash scientists encountered as they sought to reach across the blocs, create a channel for East-West dialogue and realize the project’s founding aim of influencing state actors. Uniquely, the book affords a sense of the contingent and contested process by which the network-like organization took shape around the conferences. Contributors are Gordon Barrett, Matthew Evangelista, Silke Fengler, Alison Kraft, Fabian Lüscher, Doubravka Olšáková, Geoffrey Roberts, Paul Rubinson, and Carola Sachse.

Uniting Nations

Uniting Nations
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781009081207
ISBN-13 : 1009081209
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Uniting Nations by : Daniel Gorman

Uniting Nations is a comparative study of Britons who worked in the United Nations and international non-governmental and civil society organizations from 1945 to 1970 and their role in forging the postwar international system. Daniel Gorman interweaves the personal histories of scores of individuals who worked in UN organizations, the world government movement, Quaker international volunteer societies, and colonial freedom societies to demonstrate how international public policy often emerged 'from the ground up.' He reveals the importance of interwar, Second World War, colonial, and voluntary experiences in inspiring international careers, how international and national identities intermingled in the minds of international civil servants and civil society activists, and the ways in which international policy is personal. It is in the personal relationships forged by international civil servants and activists, positive and negative, biased and altruistic, short-sighted or visionary, that the “international” is to be found in the postwar international order.

Contesting the Moral High Ground

Contesting the Moral High Ground
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 245
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ISBN-10 : 9780773541122
ISBN-13 : 0773541128
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Contesting the Moral High Ground by : Paul T. Phillips

How four of Britain's best-known thinkers influenced the public consciousness on issues from God to the environment.

Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy
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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 9780810862920
ISBN-13 : 0810862921
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy by : Rosalind Carey

Academic philosopher, logician, public intellectual, educator, political activist, and freethinker, Bertrand Russell was and remains a colossus. No other single philosopher in the last 200 years can be said to have created so much and influenced so many. His Principia Mathematica, written with A. N. Whitehead, ranks as one of the greatest books on logic since Aristotle. His philosophical work on language, meaning, logic, mind, and metaphysics formed the basis of 20th-century philosophy. Russell was active in numerous political movements of liberation and peace, and his popular writings, including the best-selling History of Western Philosophy, won the Nobel prize in literature in 1950. Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy offers a comprehensive, current guide to the many facets of Russell's work. Through its chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, people, works, and technical terms, Russell's impact on philosophy and related fields is made accessible to the reader in this must-have reference.