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Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

Vollmann, William T.

Paperback

PhilosophyCriminologyGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $24.00

ISBN10: 0060548193
ISBN13: 9780060548193
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Oct 11 2005
Pages: 752
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney's in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich amalgam of historical analysis, contemporary case studies, anecdotes, essays, theory, charts, graphs, photographs and drawings. Convinced that there is a finite number of excuses for violence and that some excuses are more valid than others, Vollmann spent two decades consulting hundreds of sources, scrutinizing the thinking of philosophers, theologians, tyrants, warlords, military strategists, activists and pacifists. He also visited more than a dozen countries and war zones to witness violence firsthand -- sometimes barely escaping with his life.

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