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Paperback / softback. New. This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many centuries. This book examines the recent revival of that tradition in the United States and Britain, arguing that it is less coherent and comprehensive as an approach to the ethical issues arising from war than is generally supposed, and that it is inconsistent in important ways with the theology on which it was originally based. A second line of criticism is mounted through close readings of modern texts in English - from Britain, Australia and the USA - that together constitute a more subjective, bottom-up understanding of the moral dilemmas of military life. In this second tradition the task of representing war is seen as more problematic, and its rationality more questionable,…
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More Than Just War: Narratives of the Just War and Military Life Paperback - 2015
by Charles Jones
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- Title More Than Just War: Narratives of the Just War and Military Life
- Author Charles Jones
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- Pages 224
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- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2015-09-29
- ISBN 9781138125872 / 1138125873
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.47 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.19 cm)
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