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ISBN
9780060548193
Book Title
Rising Up and Rising Down : Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
Publisher
HarperCollins
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2005
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.3 in
Author
William T. Vollmann
Genre
Political Science, Social Science
Topic
General, Violence in Society, Political Freedom
Item Weight
27.3 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
752 Pages
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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060548193
ISBN-13
9780060548193
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Rising Up and Rising Down : Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means
Number of Pages
752 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
General, Violence in Society, Political Freedom
Genre
Political Science, Social Science
Author
William T. Vollmann
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
27.3 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6.1 in

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Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"A deeply personal book of grand Linnean tradition." - New York Times "This book's rigorous, novelistic, imaginative, sonorous prose treats a fundamental topic on a grand (and horrific) scale; there is nothing else in literature quite like it." - Publishers Weekly, starred review
Dewey Decimal
303.6
Synopsis
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. Vollmann makes deft use of these tools and experiences to create his Moral Calculus, a structured decision-making system designed to help the reader decide when violence is justifiable and when it is not., Under what conditions is violence justified To answer this deeply troubling question, William T. Vollmann spent two decades consulting hundreds of sources and 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. The result is a breathtakingly ambitious, deeply personal book that concludes with a compilation of the author's findings: a synopsis that is his moral calculus., 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. Vollmann makes deft use of these tools and experiences to create his Moral Calculus, a structured decision-making system designed to help the reader decide when violence is justifiable and when it is not.

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