This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless manifestations. The essays encompass a

More than any other people on earth, we Americans are free to say and write what we think. The press can air the secrets of government, the corporate boardroom,

While there is a tacit appreciation that freedom from violence will lead to more prosperous relations among peoples, violence continues to be deployed for vario

Freedom Without Violence offers a critical appraisal of the conventional wisdom that violence is required for liberation and the defense of freedom. Comparing t

This edited collection explores the problem of violence from the vantage point of meaning. Taking up the ambiguity of the word ‘meaning’, the chapters analy