Justice in War Time

The Open court Pub. Co, 1916-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 7x5x0. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Scattered underlining and markings. ix, 241 p., 21 cm. <br> "After the outbreak World War One, British philosopher, journalist and political campaigner Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) set out his objections to the conflict in a series of essays. In 1916 these essays were published together in Justice in War-Time. Written in an accessible style, Russell's essays question the ethics of war. The war is fed, he argues, by a process of myth-making which dramatises the enemy as evil – 'partly through the deliberate action of newspapers and governments, but chiefly through strong collective emotions.'" - British Library <br> "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University