War for peace : genealogies of a violent ideal in Western and Islamic thought /
Peace is the elimination of war, but peace also authorizes war. We are informed today that this universal ideal can only be secured by the wars that it eliminates. The paradoxical position of peace, opposed to war, authorizing war,is encapsulated by the claim that 'war is for the sake of peace&...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019] |
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Table of Contents:
- Beyond universal peace
- Assigning symmetry : Plato's Laws and the polis's wars
- Summoning hostility : Al-Fārābī, Aquinas, and warlike peace
- Deflections : friends, neighbors, advisers
- Loving necessity : Erasumus between Christianity and Islam
- Oredering legality : Gentili, Grotius, and law for war
- Refractions : missionaries, nomads, pirates
- Colonizing frontiers : Ibn Khaldūn, Hobbes, and commodious violence
- Policing humanity : Immanuel Kant, Sayyid Quṭb, and shades of empire
- Unmaking peace.