The paperback edition (published in 2016) includes a new preface with a discussion of recent examples.
Kant stands almost unchallenged as one of the major thinkers of the European Enlightenment. This book brings the ideas of his critical philosophy to bear on one of the leading political and legal questions of our age: under what circumstances, if any, is recourse to war legally and morally justifiable? This issue was strikingly brought to the fore by the 2003 war in Iraq. The book critiques the tradition of just war thinking and suggests how international law and international relations can be viewed from an alternative perspective that aims at a more pacific system of states. Instead of seeing the theory of just war as providing a stabilizing context within which international politics can be carried out, Williams argues that the theory contributes to the current unstable international condition. The just war tradition is not the silver lining in a generally dark horizon but rather an integral feature of the dark horizon of current world politics. Kant was one of the first and most profound thinkers to moot this understanding of just war reasoning and his work remains a crucial starting point for a critical theory of war today.

Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory (International Political Theory)

Politics & Social Sciences

WILLIAMS, HOWARD

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Ethics Of Diet: A Catena Of Authorities Deprecatory Of The Practice Of Flesh-eating

"Now we can join Gandhi and Tolstoy and nameless others who encountered this vigorous and invigorating book. Welcome to a company of radicals who believed we could and should stop eating non-human animals. They brought vegetarianism out of history and into the here and now." -- from the introduction Ethical vegetarianism is no recent development, as this unrivaled historical anthology dramatizes. When it was first published 120 years ago, countless people read and endorsed The Ethics of Diet. But then it became a rare book, hard to find even in libraries. For countless more readers, it is at last available again. In this classic of vegetarian writing, Howard Williams presents a line of thought, a continuous thread, a tradition, a catena of protestation against living on "Butchery." What he finds striking is the variety of the witnesses, the prophets of "Reformed Dietetics" who have "shrunk from the rÈgime of blood," including Gautama Buddha, Pythagoras, Plato, Hesiod, Epicurus, Seneca, Ovid, Thomas More, Montaigne, Mandeville, Pope, Voltaire, Swedenborg, Wesley, Rousseau, Shelley, Byron, Lamar-tine, Michelet, Bentham, Sinclair, Schopenhauer, and Thoreau. Their words are accompanied by the vigorous narrative voice of Williams himself, who put to rest, once and for all, the idea that vegetarianism is a fad.

The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating

University of Illinois Press

International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory

This book shows how the traditional concerns of political theory push it increasingly into the study of international relations. This is done, first, by demonstrating how many of the issues usually dealt with by political theory, such as democracy and justice, arise within an increasingly global context and, secondly, by considering how international issues, such as colonialism and war, are best illuminated by building on the work of political theorists. The book suggests that political theory and international relations theory can now both be successfully engaged in as a joint enterprise only.

My Word

Religion & Spirituality

International Relations in Political Theory

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Politics & Government

Open Univ Pr

This book introduces international realtions as a theme in political theory. It assumes that interstate relations, as a variety of social and political relations, can best be understood from the standpoint of political theory, and that the distinction between domestic and international politics is an artificial one. The author has selected eleven great philosophical and political theorists and through introduction to, and discussion of, their thinking he develops the theme that classical political theory can offer an understanding of international realtions in practice. The book presupposes no great command of political theory or international relations. It will therefore serve both as a foundation for the study of international relations and as a welcome extension to traditional courses in political theory.

How were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? Originally published in 2006, this innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration between c. 400-1100 AD. Drawing on archaeological evidence from across Britain, including archaeological discoveries, Howard Williams presents a fresh interpretation of the significance of portable artefacts, the body, structures, monuments and landscapes in early medieval mortuary practices. He argues that materials and spaces were used in ritual performances that served as 'technologies of remembrance', practices that created shared 'social' memories intended to link past, present and future. Through the deployment of material culture, early medieval societies were therefore selectively remembering and forgetting their ancestors and their history. Throwing light on an important aspect of medieval society, this book is essential reading for archaeologists and historians with an interest in the early medieval period.

Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain (Cambridge Studies in Archaeology)

History

Europe

Cambridge University Press

How were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? Originally published in 2006, this innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration between c. 400-1100 AD. Drawing on archaeological evidence from across Britain, including archaeological discoveries, Howard Williams presents a fresh interpretation of the significance of portable artefacts, the body, structures, monuments and landscapes in early medieval mortuary practices. He argues that materials and spaces were used in ritual performances that served as 'technologies of remembrance', practices that created shared 'social' memories intended to link past, present and future. Through the deployment of material culture, early medieval societies were therefore selectively remembering and forgetting their ancestors and their history. Throwing light on an important aspect of medieval society, this book is essential reading for archaeologists and historians with an interest in the early medieval period.

Francis Fukuyama and the End of History (Political Philosophy Now)

In the early 1990s the American academic, political commentator and government advisor, Francis Fukuyama, leapt to prominence with his argument that society had entered a new and lasting phase. He claimed that the change was so dramatic that it might be accurately depicted as the end of history. Fukuyama derived his argument from the writings of Kant, Hegel and a critical reading of Marx. This new phase represented the worldwide triumph of liberal democracy with the collapse of communism. History has ended in the sense that there is no more room for large ideological battles. This volume is an in-depth discussion of Fukuyama's argument. It also relates Fukuyama's theory of history, to Karl Popper's criticism of historicism and attempts to denote the connection between Fukuyama's account of history and its importance in evaluating the recent course of international relations and US foreign policy.

Sullivan, David

Matthews, E. Gwynn

Univ of Wales Pr

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Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory (International Political Theory)

The Ethics of Diet: A Catena of Authorities Deprecatory of the Practice of Flesh-Eating

International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory

International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory

My Word

International Relations in Political Theory

International Relations in Political Theory

Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain (Cambridge Studies in Archaeology)

Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain (Cambridge Studies in Archaeology)

Francis Fukuyama and the End of History (Political Philosophy Now)