ISBN10: 1604976349, ISBN13: 9781604976342, [publisher: Cambria Press] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2009]
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ISBN10: 1604976349, ISBN13: 9781604976342, [publisher: Cambria Press] Hardcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2009]

Cambria Press 2009 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 250 p.

Cambria Press 2009 Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 250 p.

Cambria Press, Date: 2009-09-18. hardcover. Used:Good. 2009. Cambria Press ISBN 1604976349 9781604976342 [US]

Hardback. New. ISBN 1604976349 9781604976342 [GB]

ISBN10: 1604976349, ISBN13: 9781604976342, [publisher: Cambria Press] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was the most influential, challenging, and provocative pacifist of his generation. The most famous person alive at the dawn of the twentieth century, his international stature came not only from his great novels but from his rejection of violence and the state. Tolstoy was a strict pacifist in the last three decades of his life, and wrote at length on a central issue of politics, namely, the use of violence to maintain order, to promote justice, and to ensure the survival of society, civilization, and the human species. He unreservedly rejected the use of physical force to these or any ends. Tolstoy was a religious pacifist rather than an ethical or political one. His pacifism was rooted not in a moral doctrine or political theory but in his straightforward reading of the teachings of Jesus as recorded in the Gospels.Despite his fame, Tolstoy's pacifism remains insufficiently studied. A hundred years after his death, Tolstoy is a figure unfamiliar in political science, encountered, if at all, as the author of hortatory quotations on the wrongness of political violence or of allegiance to the state. This work of political science offers an account of Leo Tolstoy as a Christian thinker on political violence. It presents Tolstoy's pacifism as a striking case of the impact of religious idealism ...
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