'Freedom Without Violence' offers a critical appraisal of the conventional wisdom that violence is required for liberation and the defense of freedom. Comparing the broad span of violent revolutions with the history of non-violent social movements, the book shows that freedom is indelibly tied to the means used to achieve and defend it.
'Freedom Without Violence' offers a critical appraisal of the conventional wisdom that violence is required for liberation and the defense of freedom. Comparing the broad span of violent revolutions with the history of non-violent social movements, the book shows that freedom is indelibly tied to the means used to achieve and defend it
Freedom Without Violence offers a critical appraisal of the conventional wisdom that violence is required for liberation and the defense of freedom. Comparing the broad span of violent revolutions with the history of non-violent social movements, the book shows that freedom is indelibly tied to the means used to achieve and defend it.
Cover -- Freedom Without Violence -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Liberation -- 1. Revolting Revolutionaries -- 2. Nonviolent Liberation(s) -- Part II Defending Freedom -- 3. Plebeian Absences -- 4. Liberty as Life -- Part III Freedom to Rule -- 5. Pericles' Ideal -- 6. Workers of the Nations -- Part IV Nonviolent Freedom -- 7. The Capacity for Freedom -- 8. Nonviolent Political Freedom -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
Englisch
Oxford University Press
First edition
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