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Mercy : humanity in warfare / Cathal J. Nolan

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  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Type de support
  • Volume
Titre(s)
  • Mercy : humanity in warfare / Cathal J. Nolan
A pour autre édition sur un support différent
  • Mercy Humanity in Warfare Cathal J. Nolan 2022 Oxford Oxford University Press 978-0-19-764668-7
Auteur(s)
Publication
  • Oxford New York (N.Y.) : Oxford University press
Date de copyright
  • C 2023
Description matérielle
  • 1 volume (VIII-315 pages) ; 24 cm
ISBN
  • 978-0-19-007728-0
  • 0-19-007728-X
EAN
  • 9780190077280 rel.
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 174.935 5
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Résumé ou extrait
  • War presents the most degraded moral environment humanity creates. It is an arena where individuality is subsumed in collective violence and humanity is obscured as a faceless, merciless enemy pitted against its reflection in an elemental struggle for survival. A barbaric logic has guided the conduct of war throughout history. Yet as Cathal Nolan reveals in this book, even as war can obliterate hope and decency at the grand level it simultaneously produces conditions that permit astonishing exceptions of mercy and shared dignity. Pulling the trigger is usually both the expedient thing and required by war's grim and remorseless calculus. Yet somehow the trigger is not always pulled. Humanity is rediscovered and honoured in a flash of recognition. This book gathers and explores acts of singular mercy.
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