A01=Ted Honderich
Author_Ted Honderich
Category=JPA
Category=JPWL
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Product details
- ISBN 9780745321332
- Weight: 337g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2003
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book raises important questions about the uses and ethics of political violence - questions that are all the more pertinent in the light of recent events and the 'war on terror'.
What can be said for and against terrorism and political violence? When is such terrorism right, if it ever is, and when is it wrong? Ted Honderich challenges the presuppositions, inconsistencies and prejudices of liberal-democratic thinking. He tackles such emotive subjects as the IRA, the PLO and the ANC, arguing the importance of understanding the justification for political violence in all manifestations.
Exploring the moral issues that lie at the heart of these difficult questions, Honderich reminds us that political philosophy should be an attempt to inquire with an open mind - and that to open one's mind is not necessarily to lose one's convictions.
What can be said for and against terrorism and political violence? When is such terrorism right, if it ever is, and when is it wrong? Ted Honderich challenges the presuppositions, inconsistencies and prejudices of liberal-democratic thinking. He tackles such emotive subjects as the IRA, the PLO and the ANC, arguing the importance of understanding the justification for political violence in all manifestations.
Exploring the moral issues that lie at the heart of these difficult questions, Honderich reminds us that political philosophy should be an attempt to inquire with an open mind - and that to open one's mind is not necessarily to lose one's convictions.
Ted Honderich (1933 – 2024) was a philosopher who also studied political violence. He was a Professor at the University of Sussex and later Grote Professor at University College London. He gained notoriety after publishing After the Terror in 2003, in which he claimed that Palestinians had a 'moral right to their terrorism'. He authored numerous books including A Theory of Determinism and Conservatism: Burke, Nozick, Bush, Blair?. He published his autobiography Philosopher: A Kind of Life in 2001.
