War in the History of Ideas

Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy

in collaboration with the Netherlands Defence Academy

War in the History of Ideas

Tuesday 14 October 2014

Conference venue

Netherlands Defence Academy

Kraanstraat 4

4811 MA Breda

Confirmed key-note speaker professor Azar Gat

Ezer Weizmann Professor of National Security and

Chair of the Department of Political Science (Tel Aviv University)

Organised by Paul Schuurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and

Paul Donker (Netherlands Defence Academy)

The first centennial in 2014 of the First World War forms the occasion for a one-day conference on War in the History of Ideas. The nature of war, the causes of war, its prevention, its acceptability, war as a cultural phenomenon, the relation between war and philosophy, war and religion, war and politics, war and economics and the nature of military genius have all been the object of intense scrutiny by the greatest thinkers in the history of ideas and will form as many scholarly topics during this one-day conference.

The conference will be opened by Azar Gat, author of A History of Military Thought (2001), War in Human Civilization (2206) and numerous other books and articles.

Paul Schuurman [email protected] or Paul Donker [email protected]