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Sto caricando le informazioni... Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library Chronicles Book 26) (originale 2006; edizione 2009)di Mark Kurlansky (Autore), Dalai Lama (Prefazione)
Informazioni sull'operaNonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea di Mark Kurlansky (2006)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. http://pro-libertate.net/20160810/306-read-nonviolence ( ) I liked Richard Dryfus as a reader, however I did wish they would have had him pick up the pace a bit. I thought it was read too slowly. The content was as expected - the author talked about the positive aspects of nonviolence, and several successful practicioners including Martin Luthur King, Ghandi, and individuals from past wars. Nice to have something to wish for, but the world is still a long way from achieving such a lofty goal. Non-Violence: The History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky. Epiphany library section 7 B: The Church in the World, Politics/War/Peace. Foreword by His Holiness The Dalai Lama. This book begins by defining non-violence. It is not pacifism, because pacifism is passive, where non-violence is active. When Jesus said “turn the other cheek” he was preaching pacifism, but when he said that an enemy should be won over through the power of love, he was preaching nonviolence. Practitioners of nonviolence like Jesus are seen as enemies of the state because states achieve and maintain power through violence or its threat (invasion, war, “big stick” policies, repression). The author discusses the relationship throughout history between nation-states and their use of force to gain power. He discusses how violence is like a virus that spreads because people motivated by fear do not act well. However, warfare produces peace activists, and a good place to find them is in a group of war veterans! Can you figure out why this is so? I also found it very telling that as long as a group of nonviolent resisters remains nonviolent they win, but the minute they repay violence with violence, they have lost. Kurlansky also discusses those who have worked proactively for nonviolence – Christ, Quakers, the Maoris of New Zealand, Gandhi, Mandela, the Polish Solidarity movement, and conscientious objectors. Kurlansky discusses the idea of a “just war,” and the hard lessons America learned in Vietnam. This book showed me how national leaders throughout history have advocated violence (usually calling it by more palatable names like “patriotism,” or labeling other nations “evil empires”) to maintain power. Such tacit acceptance of violence is something we can learn to listen for, “under the radar” so to speak, and identify in our own time. For example, when my brother was drafted during the Vietnam era, I know much of my mother’s anxiety centered not only in the threat that he might be killed, but that he was being trained to use violence to possibly kill other human beings – something my parents continually stressed was wrong throughout our childhoods. This book also got me thinking about the strength of those who resist violence knowing they will suffer physically or mentally because of it. Nonviolent resistance can be an incredibly powerful moral tool. Watch the film Gandhi if you doubt me. This makes me want to rewatch that film. The last few pages of this book list 25 lessons about violence and nonviolence, the last two being: the miracle is that despite all of society’s promotion of warfare, most soldiers find warfare to be a wrenching departure from their own moral values, and that the hard work of beginning a movement to end war has already been done. Read this book – I believe much of it will ring true to you. While somewhat controversial, this book is timely because it is ALWAYS a good time to work for peace and understanding. Life on planet Earth depends upon our ability to wage peace. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In this timely, highly original, and controversial narrative, New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky discusses nonviolence as a distinct entity, a course of action, rather than a mere state of mind. Nonviolence can and should be a technique for overcoming social injustice and ending wars, he asserts, which is why it is the preferred method of those who speak truth to power. Nonviolence is a sweeping yet concise history that moves from ancient Hindu times to present-day conflicts raging in the Middle East and elsewhere. Kurlansky also brings into focus just why nonviolence is a "dangerous" idea, and asks such provocative questions as: Is there such a thing as a "just war"? Could nonviolence have worked against even the most evil regimes in history? Kurlansky draws from history twenty-five provocative lessons on the subject that we can use to effect change today. He shows how, time and again, violence is used to suppress nonviolence and its practitioners-Gandhi and Martin Luther King, for example; that the stated deterrence value of standing national armies and huge weapons arsenals is, at best, negligible; and, encouragingly, that much of the hard work necessary to begin a movement to end war is already complete. It simply needs to be embraced and accelerated. Engaging, scholarly, and brilliantly reasoned, Nonviolence is a work that compels readers to look at history in an entirely new way. This is not just a manifesto for our times but a trailblazing book whose time has come Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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