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A Darkling Plain
Stories of Conflict and Humanity during War
Udgivet af Cambridge University Press
ISBN
9781107034990
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"How do people maintain their humanity during wars? Despite its importance, this question receives scant scholarly attention, perhaps because war is overwhelming. The generally accepted belief is that wars bring out the worst in us, pitting one against another. "War is hell," William Tecumseh Sherman famously noted, an…
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Forfatter
Kristen Renwick Monroe
Forlag
Cambridge University Press
Kategori
Etik og moralfilosofi
ISBN-13
9781107034990
EAN
9781107034990
Format
Indbundet
Sprog
Engelsk
sider
326
Undertitel
- Stories of Conflict and Humanity during War
Produktbeskrivelse
"How do people maintain their humanity during wars? Despite its importance, this question receives scant scholarly attention, perhaps because war is overwhelming. The generally accepted belief is that wars bring out the worst in us, pitting one against another. "War is hell," William Tecumseh Sherman famously noted, and even "just" wars are massively destructive and inhumane. Since ethics is concerned with discovering what takes us to a morally superior place, one conducive to betterment and happiness- studying what helps people survive wartime trauma thus becomes an extremely valuable enterprise. A Darkling Plain fills an important scholarly void, analyzing wartime stories that reveal much about our capacity to process trauma, heal wounds, reclaim lost spirits, and derive meaning and purpose from the most horrific of personal events"--
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