Domenico Losurdo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Urbino.

• Introduction: From the Broken Promises of Perpetual Peace to Non-Violence1. Christian Abolitionism and Pacifism in the USA2. From Pacifist Abolitionism to Gandhi and Tolstoy3. Gandhi and the Socialist Movement: Violence as Discrimination?4. The Anti-Colonialist Movement, Lenin’s Party, and Gandhi’s Party5. Non-Violence in the Face of Fascism and the Second World War6. Martin Luther King as the “Black Gandhi” and Afro-American Radicalism7. Gandhi’s Global Reputation and the Construction of the Non-Violent Pantheon8. From Gandhi to the Dalai Lama?9. “Non-Violence," the “Color Revolutions," and the Great Game10. A Realistic Non-Violence in a World Prey to Nuclear Catastrophe

If the characteristic feature of the critical thinking is the questioning of the mythologies that affect the current opinions, the recent book of Domenico Losurdo is an excellent example of this school of thought. Now Losurdo engages in the deconstruction, never prejudicially hostile but rather full of genuine sympathy for the essential core, of non-violence. In order to achieve this goal he delivers a detailed history of the pacifist and non-violent theories and practices, starting with Kant's idea of perpetual peace and the with the first pacifist movements in the USA of the nineteenth century. An important and timely book in a period of increasing danger of war!

Domenico Losurdo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Urbino.

• Introduction: From the Broken Promises of Perpetual Peace to Non-Violence1. Christian Abolitionism and Pacifism in the USA2. From Pacifist Abolitionism to Gandhi and Tolstoy3. Gandhi and the Socialist Movement: Violence as Discrimination?4. The Anti-Colonialist Movement, Lenin’s Party, and Gandhi’s Party5. Non-Violence in the Face of Fascism and the Second World War6. Martin Luther King as the “Black Gandhi” and Afro-American Radicalism7. Gandhi’s Global Reputation and the Construction of the Non-Violent Pantheon8. From Gandhi to the Dalai Lama?9. “Non-Violence," the “Color Revolutions," and the Great Game10. A Realistic Non-Violence in a World Prey to Nuclear Catastrophe

If the characteristic feature of the critical thinking is the questioning of the mythologies that affect the current opinions, the recent book of Domenico Losurdo is an excellent example of this school of thought. Now Losurdo engages in the deconstruction, never prejudicially hostile but rather full of genuine sympathy for the essential core, of non-violence. In order to achieve this goal he delivers a detailed history of the pacifist and non-violent theories and practices, starting with Kant's idea of perpetual peace and the with the first pacifist movements in the USA of the nineteenth century. An important and timely book in a period of increasing danger of war!

Domenico Losurdo is emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Urbino.

• Introduction: From the Broken Promises of Perpetual Peace to Non-Violence1. Christian Abolitionism and Pacifism in the USA2. From Pacifist Abolitionism to Gandhi and Tolstoy3. Gandhi and the Socialist Movement: Violence as Discrimination?4. The Anti-Colonialist Movement, Lenin’s Party, and Gandhi’s Party5. Non-Violence in the Face of Fascism and the Second World War6. Martin Luther King as the “Black Gandhi” and Afro-American Radicalism7. Gandhi’s Global Reputation and the Construction of the Non-Violent Pantheon8. From Gandhi to the Dalai Lama?9. “Non-Violence," the “Color Revolutions," and the Great Game10. A Realistic Non-Violence in a World Prey to Nuclear Catastrophe

If the characteristic feature of the critical thinking is the questioning of the mythologies that affect the current opinions, the recent book of Domenico Losurdo is an excellent example of this school of thought. Now Losurdo engages in the deconstruction, never prejudicially hostile but rather full of genuine sympathy for the essential core, of non-violence. In order to achieve this goal he delivers a detailed history of the pacifist and non-violent theories and practices, starting with Kant's idea of perpetual peace and the with the first pacifist movements in the USA of the nineteenth century. An important and timely book in a period of increasing danger of war!