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Author Giesen, Klaus-Gerd

Title The Poesis of Peace : Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Editors' Introduction: Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies; Part I -- Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace; Part II -- Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence; Part III -- Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace; Part I: Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace; Chapter 1: Peace Is Not the Absence of War: The Vernaculars of the Humanum; Introduction; On Homer: The Shields of Peace; The Legal Orthopedia of Peace; Conclusion: Peace the Vernacular of the Humanum; Notes; References
Chapter 2: Peace, Vulnerability, and the Human ImaginationI; II; III; Notes; References; Chapter 3: Aesthetic Imagination and Animate Peace; 1. Introduction; 2. Animate Peace; 3. Living with Animals; 4. Aesthetic Imagination; 5. Conclusions: Imagining Conviviality; Notes; References; Chapter 4: The Primordial Respiratory Peace and the Possibility of Cultivation of Breathing as a Method of Peacemaking; Notes; References; Chapter 5: On Sacred Genealogies in Antigone and Savitrı; I; II; III; Notes; References; Part II: Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence
Chapter 6: Islam Versus the West? Muslim Challenges of a False Binary Transforming Islamic Liberation Theology into a Liberation Theodicy for a Decentred World; Against Dualism: From Philosophies of Despair to a Philosophy of Hope; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 7: Lanza del Vasto: A Doctrine of Just and Non-Violent Conflict; Introduction; From Aquinas to Kant to Lanza del Vasto; Jus ad bellum; The Ultimate Aim of War (Conflict): A More Perfect Peace (Than before the War); The Authority of the Prince: The Declaration of War; A Just Cause; A Right Intention
The Proportionality of Fault and PunishmentWar as Last Resort; A Reasonable Hope of Success; Jus in bello; The Authorization of Tricks and Ruses; The Proportionality of Means; The Discrimination between Combatants and Non-Combatants; Jus post bellum; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 8: 'Woman Under a Roof': Peace as Ethical Spatiality in Classical Chinese Philosophy; I; II; III; Notes; References; Chapter 9: Making Metta: The Poesis of Wholesome States among Homeleavers in Pali Buddhism; Introduction; Cultivation of Wholesome States
The Priority of Wholesome States in the Kakacupama SuttaPali Buddhist Ethics as Internal Consequentialism; Conclusions: Buddhist Renunciates as Makers of Metta; Notes; Abbreviations; References; Chapter 10: Peace in Abhinavagupta's Poetics: The Curious Case of Santa Rasa; Notes; References; Part III: Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace; Chapter 11: Blanchot's Hölderlin; Notes; References; Chapter 12: Edgelands: Topographies of Metaphor and the Renewal of Wilderness ; The Birds and 'The Big Hum'; Edgelands and Wilderness; Plants; Water; Power; Acknowledgments; Notes; References
Notes Chapter 13: Know Food, Know Peace? Community-Based Agriculture and the Practice of Non-Violence
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Subject Peace.
Peace -- Religious aspects.
Peace
Peace -- Religious aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Kersten, Carool
Škof, Lenart
ISBN 9781317021162
1317021169