Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts on Politics and Peace Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bartosch, Ulrich (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 25
• Subjects: Political science.; Nuclear physics.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.

This book offers a collection of texts by Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker (1912-2007), a major German universal scientist who was also a pioneer in physics, philosophy, religion on issues of politics and peace research. He worked with Werner Heisenberg and Otto Hahn in the German “Uranverein”, obtain...

Table of Contents:

• “We Have to Eliminate the Institution of War!” – Introduction by the Editor to Selected Political Texts of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker
• Overcoming the Institution of War
• Rethinking War and Politics in the Atomic Era
• World Domestic Policy
• Rules of International Politics
• Insecure Peace
• The Consequences of Atomic Warfare as Reason for its Prevention
• Anthropology of Power
• The Real Presence of War Risk.