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SLØK-FORELÆSNING 2021 med SamuelMoyn, Yale [ONLINE]
In the era of what Americans call “forever war,” Leo Tolstoy’s lifelong suspicion of making war humane deserves a second look. This lecture reconstructs his views in his fiction and non-fiction and investigates its relevance
to contemporary and future forms of war. Today the laws of war call for restraint, requiring protection of captured or wounded soldiers, as well as civilians in harm’s way. Yet Tolstoy, witness to the first international treaty on
the subject, was already skeptical that the values of humanity allowed for
war, and placed in the mouth of one of his most memorable characters in
War and Peace a profound critique of trying to make war humane - one
Tolstoy revised the rest of his life. Is it applicable today?
Årets Sløk-forelæsning er i 2021 med den amerikanske idéhistoriker Samuel Moyn. Moyn er idéhistoriker og jurist og én af verdens førende menneskerettighedshistorikere. Han har skrevet og redigeret adskillige bøger i
europæisk idéhistorie og menneskerettighedshistorie, inklusiv bøger som
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010), Christian Human Rights
(2015) og Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018). Moyn
arbejder aktuelt på en ny bog om den historiske oprindelse og betydning
af ‘human krigsførelse.’ Moyn er en flittig debattør og bidragsyder til den
offentlige debat. Han har tidligere været ansat på bl.a. Harvard Law
School og Columbia (New York). Foredraget afholdes på engelsk.
| Period | 28 May 2021 |
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| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Aarhus, DenmarkShow on map |