{"product_id":"raritan-on-war-an-anthology-paperback","title":"Raritan on War: An Anthology - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJackson Lears\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eKaren Parker Lears\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eC. Felix Amerasinghe\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the first time: this has been the characteristic pattern of war for more than a century. Every selection in this anthology (except for the timeless \u003ci\u003eAeneid\u003c\/i\u003e) casts light on modern war, observed or directly experienced. Most are grounded in particular places--Stalingrad, Halberstadt, Budapest, Baghdad, Algiers, the Tamil ghost towns of Sri Lanka, the six-by-twelve-foot cell in Belmarsh maximum security prison where Julian Assange is held without bail for the act of revealing U.S. war crimes. Some recapture the actual look and feel of war--the sight of a seven-year-old girl clutching her mother's hand, dodging explosions in the Halberstadt public square; the sound of a Mozart concerto in D Minor, heard by a family hiding in a cave, played on their own piano by a Serbian sniper. Others take aim at the vast and vapid abstractions used to justify armed conflict, down to and including the use of nuclear weapons. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaritan on War\u003c\/i\u003e collects some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in \u003ci\u003eRaritan \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected work that typifies \u003ci\u003eRaritan\u003c\/i\u003e's wide-ranging sensibility, focusing on a topic that is aesthetically rich, intellectually challenging, and morally disturbing. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eRaritan \u003c\/i\u003eo\u003ci\u003en War\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the power of art and reflection to sustain humane ways of being in the world, even amid constant global violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors: C. Felix Amerasinghe; Andrew J. Bacevich; Victoria De Grazia; Tamas Dobozy; David Ferry; M. Fortuna; Cai Guo-Qiang; Emma Dodge Hanson; Jochen Hellbeck; Karl Kirchwey; Ray Klimek; Peter LaBier; Patrick Lawrence; d. mark levitt; Michael Miller; Lyle Jeremy Rubin; Elizabeth D. Samet; Sherod Santos; Robert Westbrook\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJACKSON LEARS\u003c\/b\u003e is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University and editor in chief of \u003ci\u003eRaritan Quarterly. \u003c\/i\u003eHe has written five books in American cultural history, the most recent of which is \u003ci\u003eAnimal Spirits: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe American Pursuit of Vitality from Camp Meeting to Wall Street. \u003c\/i\u003eHis essays and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic; \u003c\/i\u003ethey will be collected in \u003ci\u003eConjurers, Cranks, Provincials, and Antediluvians: The Off-Modern in American History.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKAREN PARKER LEARS\u003c\/b\u003e is associate editor of \u003ci\u003eRaritan Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. From her art studio, Swansquarter, she works under the name M. Fortuna. She has had solo shows at Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and at the Johnson \u0026amp; Johnson World Headquarters Gallery in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She created illuminations for \u003ci\u003eWomen Writers of Latin America: Intimate Histories. \u003c\/i\u003eHer work can be viewed on the website \u003ci\u003eswansquarter.com.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47520120668381,"sku":"9781978841604","price":32.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/yoovT2M8ax9781978841604.webp?v=1772235883","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/raritan-on-war-an-anthology-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}