This book, a collection of Alex Danchev's essays on the theme of art, war and terror, newly available in paperback, offers a sustained demonstration of the way in which works of art can help us to explore the most difficult ethical and political issues of our time: war, terror, extermination, torture and abuse. It takes seriously the idea of the artist as moral witness to this realm, considering war photography, for example, as a form of humanitarian intervention. War poetry, war films and war diaries are also considered in a broad view of art, and of war. Kafka is drawn upon to address torture and abuse in the war on terror; Homer is utilised to analyse current talk of 'barbarisation'. The paintings of Gerhard Richter are used to investigate the terrorists of the Baader-Meinhof group, while the photographs of Don McCullin and the writings of Vassily Grossman and Primo Levi allow the author to propose an ethics of small acts of altruism. This book examines the nature of war over the last century, from the Great War to a particular focus on the current 'Global War on Terror'. It investigates what it means to be human in war, the cost it exacts and the ways of coping. Several of the essays therefore have a biographical focus.
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One of the most important books I have had the pleasure to read in a long time... When reading this thoughtful and thought-provoking book terms that come to mind include lucid, illuminating, mesmerizing, all of which are analytically weak but indicative nevertheless of what makes this book such a profound reading experience... The author is not impressed by disciplinary borders: borders are there to be ignored, frontiers are meeting-places. Art thinks. Art makes us think. Art makes us think otherwise. Art helps us make a judgement, a moral judgement. --Frank Moller, University of Tampere Millennium: Journal of International Studies
Alex Danchev's series of essays remind us why he is one of the most perceptive and witty scholars writing in Britain today. --Andrew Roberts The Sunday Telegraph (Reviews Editor)
The range of these beautifully crafted essays is often dazzling. At his best, Danchev reveals himself to be a gifted and profound essayist. --Bryan Cheyette The Independent A Times Higher Education Book of the Week (September 2009)
Alex Danchev's series of essays remind us why he is one of the most perceptive and witty scholars writing in Britain today. --Andrew Roberts The Sunday Telegraph (Reviews Editor)
The range of these beautifully crafted essays is often dazzling. At his best, Danchev reveals himself to be a gifted and profound essayist. --Bryan Cheyette The Independent A Times Higher Education Book of the Week (September 2009)
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Alex Danchev is Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He has held visiting positions at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC, St Antony's College, Oxford, and King's College, London. He is the author of a number of widely acclaimed biographies, of Field Marshal Sir John Dill, Oliver Franks, Basil Liddell Hart and Georges Braque, and editor of the best-selling Alanbrooke Diaries. He writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and Times Higher Education. He is working on a biography of Paul Cezanne.
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