Ethiopian Campaign And French Political Thought

Ethiopian Campaign And French Political Thought

Product Description Yves Simon was one of the preeminent Thomistic philosophers and political theorists of the twentieth century. He saw it as a moral duty to understand human reality and to use philosophical analysis to examine contemporary politics when they embodied philosophical errors or vicious ideologies. In The Ethiopian Campaign and French Political Thought, Simon extracts principles from the 1894 Dreyfus Affair in France and applies them to Italys 1935 invasion of Ethopia. As Simons analysis shows, the relatively obscure events leading up to the Italian invasion had larger implications for Europe and the world, perhaps even paving the way for Vichy Frances collaboration with Hitlers German New Order. Review While it is true that Yves R. Simon did not intend this to be a history book, The Ethiopian Campaign and French Political Thought is an important historical work well deserving of a close reading by students of twentieth-century European history and international relations. This book, which finds a worthy English translation after too many years, was Simons first serious foray into the public square on the side of justice and the common good. Simons analysis is wide-ranging, incisive, and brimming with far-sighted political acumen. (Robert Ventresca) About the Author Yves R. Simon (1903-1961) was the author of twenty books and professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Chicago. Anthony O. Simon is the director of the Yves R. Simon Institute.