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Civil Disobedience Civil Disobedience A Philosophical Overview Piero Moraro ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD --------------------------------------- INTERNATIONAL London (cid:127) New York Published by Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd. 6 Tinworth Street, London SEI 1 5 AL www.rowmanintemational.com Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd. is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706, USA With additional offices in Boulder, New York, Toronto (Canada), and London (UK) www.rowman.com Copyright © 20 1 9 by Piero Moraro All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information A catalogue record for this book is available from tire British Library ISBN: HB 978-1-78660-716-4 ISBN: PB 978-1-78660-718-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moraro, Piero Civil disobedience : A philosophical overview Description: Identifiers: Subjects: Classification: LC record available at To Samu and Tilly. Disobey Well. Contents Acknowledgements ix Introduction 1 1 What’s Wrong with Disobedience? 5 2 The Concept of Civility 29 3 Disagreement and Civility 59 4 Non-violence and Civility 83 5 The Moral Right to Civil Disobedience 103 6 Moving Forward 129 Notes 149 Bibliography 159 Index ' 169 vii Acknowledgements I would like to express my thanks to the Centre for Law and Justice at Charles Sturt University, for providing invaluable support and encourage- ment during my work at this manuscript. I am also grateful to Rowman & Littlefield International for offering me the opportunity to write this book, and for their professionalism in assisting me during my work at the manuscript. I am grateful to John Wiley & Sons, Oxford University Press and Sci- ences Po Press for having granted me permission to use some of the material I have previously published with them. Thanks to my family in Italy, without whom this book would have never been written. Finally, I thank my wife, Jacqui, and our two kids, Samuele and Matilde, for cuddles, laughter and constant reminders that there is more to life than writing a book.
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