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- Title
PACIFISM AND THE SCIENCE OF WAR: JANE ADDAMS AND BERTRAND RUSSELL ON WORLD WAR I.
- Authors
FISCHER, MARILYN
- Abstract
In July 1915, after hearing Jane Addams speak in London on her efforts for peace during wartime, Bertrand Russell wrote to an American friend, "You can gather what I think and feel by talking to Miss Addams. She seemed to me to have exactly the same outlook as I have." In this paper I compare how Russell and Addams used the era's scientific theories in formulating their pacifism. After recounting Addams's and Russell's experiences during the war, I show how Addams and Russell accounted for civilization's "descent into barbarism" in parallel ways. I then contrast their conceptions of what counts as progress in civilization, and show how these differences shaped their critiques of war. In the final section I compare how their responses correlated with the forms their activism took during the war.
- Subjects
PACIFISM; ADDAMS, Jane, 1860-1935; RUSSELL, Bertrand, 1872-1970; WORLD War I; CIVILIZATION
- Publication
Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 2022, Vol 42, Issue 2, p101
- ISSN
0036-0163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/rss.2022.0012