War, Peace and Poetry
Roger Petersen
Thu Jan 16, 01-02:30pm, 5-234
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
In "Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Modern War," John Mueller argues that the richest and most developed nations have developed a sub-rational aversion to war. He points out that there has been no war among the forty-four richest nations since the end of the Second World War. How can such an argument be evaluated? This session examines Mueller's argument by tracing the evolution of war poetry over the last century. Do these poems suggest the development of an understanding of the futility of war in economically advanced states?
Contact: Roger Petersen, E53-487, x3-6781, rpeters@mit.edu
Sponsor: Political Science
Latest update: 04-Dec-2002
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