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Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times
Alison McQueen
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2018
主題
History / Social History
Law / International
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / European / German
Literary Criticism / European / Italian
Philosophy / Political
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / International Relations / General
ISBN
1107152399
9781107152397
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iqpCDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
From climate change to nuclear war to the rise of demagogic populists, our world is shaped by doomsday expectations. In this path-breaking book, Alison McQueen shows why three of history's greatest political realists feared apocalyptic politics. Niccol- Machiavelli in the midst of Italy's vicious power struggles, Thomas Hobbes during England's bloody civil war, and Hans Morgenthau at the dawn of the thermonuclear age all saw the temptation to prophesy the end of days. Each engaged in subtle and surprising strategies to oppose apocalypticism, from using its own rhetoric to neutralize its worst effects to insisting on a clear-eyed, tragic acceptance of the human condition. Scholarly yet accessible, this book is at once an ambitious contribution to the history of political thought and a work that speaks to our times.