{"product_id":"2026200017498-secondhand-on-civil-disobedience-and-non-violence","title":"On Civil Disobedience And Non-Violence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeo Tolstoy, celebrated the world over as the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, was equally a towering moral philosopher whose political writings cut to the very heart of power, conscience, and human freedom. On Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence gathers for the first time his most prophetic essays and treatises, in which Tolstoy argues with fierce clarity that the state's authority is fundamentally illegitimate, that violence can never serve justice, and that the individual conscience must stand as the ultimate arbiter of right and wrong. These are not the quiet meditations of a drawing-room intellectual, but the urgent dispatches of a man who renounced his aristocratic privilege, influenced Gandhi's entire philosophy of Satyagraha, and dared to challenge the Russian Orthodox Church and the Tsar simultaneously.\n\nWritten with the uncompromising moral directness that defines Tolstoy's later prose, this collection presents a body of thought that resonates with the urgency of today's headlines, as relevant to modern debates on civil resistance as it was to the revolutionary ferment of late-19th-century Russia. Tolstoy's radical insistence on the sovereignty of the individual soul over institutional power — whether governmental, religious, or military — remains a challenge to every reader willing to ask where their own obedience truly ends. For anyone who believes that literature and philosophy must ultimately answer to life, these pages demand to be reckoned with.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49216210239707,"sku":"2026200017498-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/15b3bddf-03b7-42ad-ad4c-782dcff0394a.png?v=1788405406","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200017498-secondhand-on-civil-disobedience-and-non-violence","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}