There is an interesting account of the Anscombe/Lewis debate in Benjamin Lipscomb’s delightful book “The Women are up to Something” …. https://a.co/d/3hYGS3x
The Chinese massacres were in 1938-39, years before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan was a defeated nation after Tokyo was bombed in 1944-45, before the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. But yes, all horrific beyond words.
The conflict is often termed the second Sino-Japanese War, and known in China as the War of Resistance to Japan. There are arguments that the conflict began with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, but between 1937 and 1945, China and Japan were at total war. When Japan was finally defeated in 1945, China was on the winning side, but lay devastated, having suffered some 15 million deaths, massive destruction of industrial infrastructure and agricultural production..,"
Nope. As I recall someone else is! C.S. Lewis later said she had been right, and changed his views accordingly.
Glad you liked "Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard"! The Russian edition with NLO was well-reviewed and selling briskly before the bombs began to fall. Nowhere is it so needed.
You might like my "Czesław Miłosz: A California Life," published a few years ago by Heyday in Berkeley. A Berkeley book about a Berkeley man. Leon Wieseltier had glowing words about it.
There is an interesting account of the Anscombe/Lewis debate in Benjamin Lipscomb’s delightful book “The Women are up to Something” …. https://a.co/d/3hYGS3x
Look up the numbers of Chinese massacred by the Japanese before and during WW2 then tell me Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not necessary.
The Chinese massacres were in 1938-39, years before Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan was a defeated nation after Tokyo was bombed in 1944-45, before the atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. But yes, all horrific beyond words.
The conflict is often termed the second Sino-Japanese War, and known in China as the War of Resistance to Japan. There are arguments that the conflict began with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931, but between 1937 and 1945, China and Japan were at total war. When Japan was finally defeated in 1945, China was on the winning side, but lay devastated, having suffered some 15 million deaths, massive destruction of industrial infrastructure and agricultural production..,"
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/chinas-war-japan#:~:text=The%20conflict%20is%20often%20termed,Japan%20were%20at%20total%20war.
Interesting! Are you writing a book on her?? I loved your Girard book.
Nope. As I recall someone else is! C.S. Lewis later said she had been right, and changed his views accordingly.
Glad you liked "Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard"! The Russian edition with NLO was well-reviewed and selling briskly before the bombs began to fall. Nowhere is it so needed.
You might like my "Czesław Miłosz: A California Life," published a few years ago by Heyday in Berkeley. A Berkeley book about a Berkeley man. Leon Wieseltier had glowing words about it.
Yes, the Lewis concession is recounted in the Lipscomb book I referenced in my comment. (https://a.co/d/3hYGS3x)
Can you share some of what it says about the "Lewis concession"?
Will do asap.