About this title: Based on extensive, first hand research in Borges native Buenos Aires, including interviews with surviving relatives and friends, this meticulous and evocative biography offers new insights into the life and work of Jorges Luis Borges. . A writer and journalist examines the life and works of one of the best-known South American writers. Impacting post-war fiction and philosophyfrom Garca Mrquez to Fuentes, Updike to Eco, Barth to FoucaultBorges is considered to be one of the founding fathers of an intellectual brand of magical realism. Jorge Luis Borges is one of the seminal figures in ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780465037056ISBN:0465037054
Description: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dustcover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "from the library of" labels. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1977
ISBN-13:9780465037056ISBN:0465037054
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Softcover; Good condition; Printed Text VG; light tanning to pages; name inside; light shelfwear; (shelf C13); 361pp; "Drawing on historical illustrations than range from the Athenian attack on Melos to the Mai Lai Massacre, the author uses testimony of participants to examine the moral issues of warfare" read more
Description: Very Good. Basic Books, TPB, 1977, 2nd edition published 1992. Clean, reasonably tight, light wear, name on first page but no other markings. Check my store for other military history titles. read more
Edition: Third Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Perseus Books, N Y.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780465037056ISBN:0465037054
Description: Very Good+ Jacket Not Issued. . third edition....nice clean copy...binding is solid...text unmarked...covers slightly soiled....corners slightly bumped...military history. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780713911626ISBN:071391162X
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"This one covers the topic of how to have a "just" war, and follows the assumption that wars can be carried out ethically. It's an interesting book with lots of examples pulled from history. I can't remember Walzer ever asking the question of whether war is EVER ethical, but perhaps he did. I read this one a long time ago."
"I began reading this book on July 21, 2009, having borrowed it from my son's girlfriend; now, on October 14, 2009, I have completed my reading of this book. It was not that I didn't like the book that took me so long to read it; my problem was that it was a good book that also took concentrated effort to read, and concentrated effort to read was something that was in rather short supply for the past few months. But, I have completed my reading of the book; and, since I got a brand-new copy to return to my son's girlfriend (the reading copy I borrowed from her is rather beat-up), I am glad to have my own copy of this work, as it was a book I liked, and liked very much.
The work is divided into Four Parts and an Afterword. Part One deals with The Moral Reality of War, dealing with topics like The Crime of War (taking General Sherman and the Burning of Atlanta as an illustration of his points) and The Rules of War. Part Two is The Theory of Aggression, with such items as Law and Order in International Society, and Interventions (as in the American War in Vietnam). Part Three, The War Convention, concerns topics such as Noncombatant Immunity and Military Necessity, Guerrilla War, Terrorism, and Reprisals. Part Four concerns itself with Dilemmas of War: Aggression and Neutrality, Supreme Emergency, and Nuclear Deterrence. Part Five deals with The Question of Responsibility, as in The Crime of Aggression: Political Leaders and Citizens, and War Crimes: Soldiers and Their Officers (the My Lai Massacre). Finally, the Afterward covers the topic Nonviolence and the Theory of War.
I find is well nigh impossible to summarize the author's writings in this book. Part of the problem is that I spent such a long time reading this book that it is difficult to recall what impressed me in the earlier chapters; and part of it is that the whole question of Just and Unjust Wars, with all their moral problems, is a huge territory to cover.
War is pretty much a given in our world; and war works under different rules than ordinary life. (If I take a gun and kill someone, meaning to kill him, it is murder of some kind - but if I am a soldier and kill an enemy combatant, then it is not murder.) All military systems train soldiers to obey orders without question - except that one is not supposed to obey an order that is immoral. In many ways, immorality in war, either in why it is being waged in a particular instance, or how it is being waged in a particular instance, is a judgement call - which is why war crimes trials of various kinds are so controversial. (The Allies won in World War II, so the Allies got to have War Crimes Trials on German and Japanese military and government figures; if the Axis had won, surely they would have War Crimes Trials on Allied military and government figures.)
This is a book with applicability in both the consideration of past wars (those who forget the past are indeed compelled to repeat it) and for current and future wars; for as we are not in a perfect world, there will be future wars, and one would hope that if we must be in wars, that we will be in them for the right reasons, and behave morally in those wars."
"This book has opened my eyes to the grey in the moral argument of war. War is evil, but in some cases the evil action of war may be the best response. Though, I believe that through out history war has been a tool of aggression and waged for unjust purpose more often than not."
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