ABSTRACT
This book charts ideas European intellectuals (mostly from Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy) put forward to solve the problem of war during the first half of the twentieth century: a period that began with the Anglo-Boer war and that ended with the explosion of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Such ideas do not belong to a homogeneous tradition of thought, but can be understood as a unique discourse that takes different characteristics according to the point of view of each author and of the specific historical situation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|69 pages
1900–1914: ideas and history, the nineteenth-century legacy of optimism
part II|42 pages
Inside the war (1914–1915)
part III|30 pages
Seeking a new European order: projects for unifying the continent in the interwar period
part IV|85 pages
Critique of violence: politics, revolution and religion