Realism and Hope in a Nuclear Age
Title | Realism and Hope in a Nuclear Age PDF eBook |
Author | Kermit D. Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804208505 |
Turnabout
Title | Turnabout PDF eBook |
Author | WAND Education Fund (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Antinuclear movement |
ISBN |
Political Realism and International
Title | Political Realism and International PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Kipnis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sanity and Survival in the Nuclear Age
Title | Sanity and Survival in the Nuclear Age PDF eBook |
Author | Jerome David Frank |
Publisher | |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Creating Hope in the Nuclear Age
Title | Creating Hope in the Nuclear Age PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Albertini |
Publisher | |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Nonviolence |
ISBN |
The Realist Hope
Title | The Realist Hope PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher J. Insole |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2016-02-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317018214 |
Taking into consideration analytical, continental, historical, post-modern and contemporary thinkers, Insole provides a powerful defence of a realist construal of religious discourse. Insole argues that anti-realism tends towards absolutism and hubris. Where truth is exhausted by our beliefs about truth, there is no conceptual space for doubting those beliefs; only a conception of truth as absolute, given and accessible can guarantee the very humility, sense of fallibility and sensitivity to difference that the anti-realist rightly values. Cutting through some of the tired and well-rehearsed debates in this area, Insole provides a fresh perspective on approaches influenced by Wittgenstein, Kant, and apophatic theology. The defence of realism offered is unusual in being both analytically precise, and theologically sensitive, with a view to some of the wider and less well-explored cultural, ethical and political implications of the debate.
Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times
Title | Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times PDF eBook |
Author | Alison McQueen |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107152399 |
From climate change to nuclear war to the rise of demagogic populists, our world is shaped by doomsday expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alison McQueen shows why three of history's greatest political realists feared apocalyptic politics. Niccol- Machiavelli in the midst of Italy's vicious power struggles, Thomas Hobbes during England's bloody civil war, and Hans Morgenthau at the dawn of the thermonuclear age all saw the temptation to prophesy the end of days. Each engaged in subtle and surprising strategies to oppose apocalypticism, from using its own rhetoric to neutralize its worst effects to insisting on a clear-eyed, tragic acceptance of the human condition. Scholarly yet accessible, this book is at once an ambitious contribution to the history of political thought and a work that speaks to our times.