Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Transition to Modernity: The Place of God and Myth
6. BY the Grace of God: Peace and Martin Luther’s two Kingdoms 15
7. A Secure and Healthy Life: Spinoza on the Prospects for Peace 31
8. Modern Definitions Of Peace: State and Law as Means to Peace
9. Thomas Hobbes on the Path to Peace: Love of Glory Versus Realist Foreign Policy 49
10. John Locke’s Liberal Path to Peace 71
11. Vattel on Morally Non-Discriminatory Peace 91
12. In Search for Laws Above Nations: Jean-Jacques Rousseau On Perpetual Peace 109
13. Kant, Cosmopolitan Right, and the Prospects For Global Peace 129
14. Hegel on Peace 149
15. Late-Modern Critiques of the Security of States as Approximation of Peace
16. Seeking Peace in Nature: A Reading of Thoreau on Ecology and Economy 161
17. Heidegger’s Polemical Peace: Outer Violence for Inner Harmony 183
18. The State of Exception, Divine Violence, and Peace: Walter Benjamin’s Lesson 199
19. Hannah Arendt On Peace as a Means to Politics 223
20. Defining Peace: Jacques Derrida’s “Impossible Friendship” And “Democracy To Come” 243
21. Habermas On Peace and Democratic Legitimacy 269
22. About The Contributors 293
23. Index 297
24. Books in the Laurier Studies in Political Philosophy Series 312