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About the Author
Dustin Ells Howes is David J. Kriskovich Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University.
Reviews
"This is an ambitious and challenging book...[It] covers a massive range of material, and it is clearly based on extensive research and thinking." - The Review of Politics "In a moment when war and violence are liberally defended as the means necessary to achieve or preserve freedom, Howes' Freedom without Violence offers a timely and trenchant critique of our easy acquiescence to this view of freedom's relationship to violence. The book moves across the history of Western political thought to examine the origins and transformations that led to such a decided convergence between violence and freedom. But the book's real achievement is to unearth from the fissures of this tradition alternative practices and notions of self-rule - of willing, ruling, and acting - that underwrite more durable forms of nonviolent freedom. With this work, Howes continues to bring the history and theory of nonviolence into conversation with mainstream political theory with admirable political and intellectual seriousness." - Karuna Mantena, author of Alibis of Empire "In this remarkable work of historical and theoretical scholarship, Dustin Howes critically explicates the often-overlooked relationship between freedom and violence in the Western tradition. He then examines and contributes to the attempts to develop a concept of freedom that goes along with nonviolence. It is indispensable for anyone interested in freedom, violence, and nonviolence in history or the present." - James Tully, author of Democracy and Civic Freedom and Imperialism and Civic Freedom "A major challenge facing humanity today is to find ways of defending freedom without resorting to the horrors of modern warfare. A sober analysis of the entire Western political tradition has led Howes to the conclusion that the yearning for nonviolent ways of maintaining freedom is steadily getting stronger. This is a book for our troubled times. Academics, journalists and policy makers will find its vision appealing and realistic." - Anthony J. Parel, Professor Emeritus, University of Calgary
Book Information
ISBN 9780199336999
Author Dustin Ells Howes
Format Hardback
Page Count 288
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 492g
Dimensions(mm) 243mm * 163mm * 25mm