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Um Mundo sem Guerras. A Ideia de Paz das Promessas do Passado as Tragedias do Presente

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Nesta obra, Domenico Losurdo traça a história da ideia de paz, desde a Revolução Francesa até os dias atuais, e problematiza questões dramáticas de nosso tempo: é possível construir um mundo sem guerras? Devemos confiar na não violência? A democracia é garantia real de paz ou pode transformar-se em ideologia de guerra? Refletir sobre as promessas, as decepções, as voltas e reviravoltas da história da ideia de paz perpétua é essencial para compreender nosso passado e dar novo impulso à luta contra o crescente perigo de novas guerras.

434 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

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Domenico Losurdo

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Domenico Losurdo (14 November 1941 – 28 June 2018) was an Italian Marxist philosopher and historian better known for his critique of anti-communism, colonialism, imperialism, the European tradition of liberalism and the concept of totalitarianism.

He was director of the Institute of Philosophical and Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Urbino, where he taught history of philosophy as Dean at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. Since 1988, Losurdo was president of the Hegelian International Association Hegel-Marx for Dialectical Thought. He was also a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin (an association in the tradition of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's Prussian Academy of Sciences) as well as director of the Marx XXI political-cultural association.

From communist militancy to the condemnation of American imperialism and the study of the African-American and Native American question, Losurdo was also a participant in national and international politics.

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November 19, 2024
Otro de los excelentes recorridos históricos de las ideas filosóficas del mundo moderno de Losurdo que no puedo dejar de recomendar. Es un repaso profundo desde el origen, que como muchas otras cosas es un legado de la revolución francesa, hasta el presente del objetivo de la paz perpetua, y de como el camino ha estado lleno de complicaciones a menudo materiales, pero a veces también de enfoque. Losurdo es especialmente minucioso para desarrollar este último punto, centrando su análisis en la cuestión colonial y de cómo esta paz, cuando la proponen quienes eluden esta cuestión, no contempla a los habitantes de la periferia o del sur global como sujetos dignos de ser incluidos en ella. Si bien le falta algo de la fuerza que encontramos en sus mejores libros (que resultan ser los mejores libros que yo he leído, en general) sí que conserva el rigor teórico y argumentativo presente en ellos.
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October 9, 2025
Po mermão como é que pode eu enter TODAS AS PRIMEIRAS 400 PÁGINAS e na CONCLUSÃO ESSE ITALIANO FDP ME PUXA HEGEL PRA CARALHO MEU DEUS
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