Book Review : JINNAH : India-Partition Independence
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As I completed the enjoyable navigation through the ponderous, pompous, and pontificatory prose of Jaswant Singh, I was reminded of three other famous writers:
Oscar Wilde: The only duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Benedetto Croce: All historiography is contemporary historiography.
Voltaire: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
To put the last quotation in context, Voltaire is said to have said this to Helvetius after his book De l’esprit was burned in 1759.That was 30 years before the French Revolution began. One wonders whether Gujarat under Narendra Modi is in a pre-Revolutionary situation.
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Book Review: Hannah Arendt and International Relations
Edited by Antony F.Lang, Jr. and John Williams
Palgrave Macmillan, New York
2005, pages 236
There are nine papers in all, written by six scholars, two of whom double up as editors. All the writers are university teachers, with four of them teaching International Relations(IR). Hannah Arendt never wrote on IR as such. But, the editors believe that it is possible to gain insights of value in IR from philosophers even if they do not directly theorize on IR. So far no attempt has been made to find out to what extent the ideas of Arendt can be invoked into IR. This book is the first such attempt.
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March 05th, 2009 | category:book-reviews, books, uncategorized |
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