The power of nonviolence : writings by advocates of peace / introduction by Howard Zinn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010

Series:

Beacon anthology

A Beacon anthology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace.

Pacifism.

Nonviolence.

Physical Description:

x, 202 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [2002]

Contents:

Introduction: Retaliation / Howard Zinn vii

i. Pre-twentieth century

Let a Man Overcome Anger by Love (520 B.C.) / Buddha 3

from "Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe" (1693) / William Penn 5

from "War" (1885) / Ralph Waldo Emerson 8

Civil Disobedience (1849) / Henry David Thoreau 15

ii. The fin de siecle to the cold war (1900-1949)

from "Newer Ideals of Peace" (1907) / Jane Addams 39

from The Trial of Scott Nearing and the American Socialist Society (1919) / Scott Nearing 42

My Faith in Nonviolence (1930) / Mohandas K. Gandhi 45

Pacifism (1936) / Dorothy Day 47

Our Country Passes from Undeclared War to Declared War; We Continue Our Christian Pacifist Stand (1942) 50

from "Reflections on War" (1933) / Simone Weil 53

Neither Victims nor Executioners (1946) / Albert Camus 57

Are We Only Paying Lip Service to Peace? (1946) / Henry A. Wallace 74

iii. The cold war and vietnam (1950-1975)

Getting Rid of War (1959) / A. J. Muste 83

The Case for Unilateral Disarmament (1960) / Erich Fromm 92

The Root of War Is Fear (1962) / Thomas Merton 96

The Way to Disarmament (1962) / Rajendra Prasad 105

Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam (1967) / Martin Luther King, Jr. 113

Vietnam: The Moral Equation (1970) / Howard Zinn 125

iv. Post-vietnam to the present (1975- )

Communities of Resistance: A Conversation (1975) / Daniel Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh 141

from The Fate of the Earth (1984) / Jonathan Schell 162

The Immorality of War: A Conversation (1992) / Daisaku Ikeda, Linus Pauling 174

The Dilemma of the Absolute Pacifist: A Conversation (1992) 178

War Is Peace (2001) / Arundhati Roy 182

Who's Being Naive? War-Time Realism through the Looking Glass (2001) / Tim Wise 193

International Appeal of Nobel Prize Laureates, Poets, Philosophers, Intellectuals and Human Rights Defenders for an Immediate End to the War against Afghanistan (2001) 198.

Notes:

Originally published: Instead of violence / edited with notes and introductions by Arthur and Lila Weinberg. New York : Grossman Publishers, 1963.

ISBN:

0807014079

OCLC:

49403835