The Bullet's Song
Subtitle: Romantic Violence and Utopia
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: October 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780684809076
Subjects: Political activity; Intellectuals; History & Theory - Radical Thought; History - General History; Social History; History: World; Radicalism; Modern - 20th Century; History / General; History / Modern / 20th Century; History-Social History; Political Science-History & Theory - Radical Thought; History; 20th century
First sentence: This book tells a story about the twentieth century, which has in it a lesson for the twenty-first-one that I would think unlikely to be learned, since it is a moral lesson, concerning the role of virtue in human existence, and we know about moral lessons.
Description: "A hidden moral history of the twentieth century unfolds in William Pfaff's story of writers, artists, intellectual soldiers, and religious revolutionaries implicated in the century's physical and moral violence. They were motivated by romanticism, nationalism, utopianism - and the search for transcendence. To our twenty-first century, already plunged - once again - into visionary terrorism and utopian quests, they leave a warning."--BOOK JACKET.