The causes of war and peace

Philosophy and Literature 30 (2):484-495 (2006)
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Abstract

Tolstoy’s War and Peace is a magnificent work; as any such work, it can be read in a variety of ways and be found to teach us important lessons at a number of independent levels. Here I want to look at it as an extended meditation on historical causality---and, by implication, on causality, period. So I will not be taking it for granted that it is a novel; I will be treating it as if it were an outcome of the conceptual reflection philosophers engage in---though, when all is said and done, I will be able to shed light on some of its structural features as a novel.

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Ermanno Bencivenga
University of California, Irvine

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