Alex Danchev (1955–2016) was Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for 2014-17. He was the author of a number of internationally acclaimed biographies, most recently Cézanne (2012), and an influential collection of essays, On Art and War and Terror (2009). He was also the editor of the best-selling 100 Artists’ Manifestos (2011).

• List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Blasphemers and Others; 1. ‘Good, but what is Good?’ Ethics after Ikonnikov; 2. Our Brothers’ Keeper: Moral Witness; 3. Angelus Novus: The Angel of History; 4. Infidels and Miscreants: Love and War in Afghanistan; 5. Trouble Makers: Laura Poitras and the Problem of Dissent; 6. The Silage of History: Anselm Kiefer and the Kieferworld; 7. Footfall: The Moral Economy of Reinhard Mucha; 8. Tony Blair’s Vietnam: The Iraq War and the Special Relationship; 9. Accomplicity: Britain, Torture and Terror; 10. Mending the World: Artists’ Manifestos; 11. The Hallowed Mentor: Cézanne by Numbers; 12. The Vacuity of Evil: Rumsfeld in Washington; Index.

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