War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought 1st Edition

War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190658014,0190658010,9780190658038, 0190658037

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190658037
• ISBN-13: 9780190658038
• Author: Murad Idris

In War for Peace, Murad Idris looks at the ways that peace has been treated across the writings of ten thinkers from ancient and modern political thought, from Plato to Immanuel Kant and Sayyid Qutb, to produce an original and striking account of what peace means and how it works. Idris argues that peace is parasitical in that the addition of other ideals into peace, such as law, security, and friendship, reduces it to consensus and actually facilitates war; it is provincial in that its universalized content reflects particularistic desires and fears, constructions of difference, and hierarchies within humanity; and it is polemical, in that its idealization is not only the product of antagonisms, but also enables hostility. War for Peace uncovers the basis of peace’s moralities and the political functions of its idealizations, historically and into the present. This bold and ambitious book confronts readers with the impurity of peace as an ideal, and the pressing need to think beyond universal peace

Table contents:

1. Assigning Symmetry: Plato’s Laws and the Polis’s Wars
2. Summoning Hostility: Al-Fārābī, Aquinas, and Warlike Peace
Interlude I—Deflections: Friends, Neighbors, Advisers
3. Loving Necessity: Erasmus between Christianity and Islam
4. Ordering Legality: Gentili, Grotius, and Law for War
Interlude II—Refractions: Missionaries, Nomads, Pirates
5. Colonizing Frontiers: Ibn Khaldūn, Hobbes, and Commodious Violence
6. Policing Humanity: Immanuel Kant, Sayyid Quṭb, and Shades of Empire

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