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Is Peace Possible?

Is Peace Possible?

Lonsdale, Kathleen
Popova, Maria

Hardcover

PhilosophyCriminologyGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 1961341190
ISBN13: 9781961341197
Publisher: Marginalian Editions
Published: May 20 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Marginalian Editions presents a trailblazing Quaker scientist's slender masterwork of moral courage, penned at the height of the Cold War, envisioning a transformation of the human spirit and our politics that might enable the triumph of peace.

Kathleen Lonsdale was a groundbreaking chemist who was instrumental in developing the science of crystallography. She was also a midlife convert to Quakerism who campaigned for peace and prison reform. Horrified by the dropping of the first atomic bombs, Lonsdale felt that the entire scientific community was now tainted by the violence it had enabled. Published in 1957, Is Peace Possible? was her attempt to make amends for this communal guilt by demonstrating that science can bring peace as well as war, and can address the big questions generally left to the humanities.

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