Title Snapshots from home : mind, action and strategy in an uncertain world / K.M. Fierke

Published Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource Series Bristol studies in international theory Bristol studies in international theory Contents Front Cover -- Series page -- Snapshots from Home: Mind, Action and Strategy in an Uncertain World -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introductions -- Repositioning the Apparatus -- Quantum social science -- Global international relations -- Cultural appropriation -- The apparatus -- Repositioning -- Snapshots from home -- Snapshots from different angles -- Getting to Know the Apparatus -- The parallel -- Real and non-real -- Mind -- Action -- Strategy -- Contrasts and parallels -- Entangled in language Science and mysticism -- Science and culture -- Conclusion -- Section I Impermanence -- Snapshot 1 Self/ No- Self -- Impermanence and self -- Turning toward the relational self -- Impermanence and motion -- Two truths -- The illusory self -- Ceasing the proliferation of concepts -- The collective self -- Conclusion -- Section II Complementarity and Yinyang -- Snapshot 3 Action/ No Action -- Environment and nature -- The Dao and nature -- Dao and qi -- Non-presence/presence -- Wuwei -- Method, mind and action -- Conclusion -- Snapshot 4 War/ No War -- Strategy as artscience Destruction or deference -- Sun Tzu's strategy -- The rhythms of nature -- The reversal of opposites -- Leadership and planning -- The emotional dynamics of war -- Navigating yinyang -- Knowing the enemy -- Knowing the self -- Conclusion -- Section III Entanglement and Karma -- Snapshot 5 Navigating a Participatory Universe -- Things and actions -- Measuring human intra- actions -- Desireless action -- Karmayoga and desireless action -- Karma and fruits of action -- Self-reform and desireless action -- Seen and unseen -- Self/ self -- Conclusion -- Snapshot 6 What Goes Around Comes Around Things and relationships -- Consciousness and property -- Property and the appropriating I -- The cycle of samsāra -- Seen and unseen -- Intention- action-fruits -- Conclusion -- Endings/Beginnings -- At Home in the Universe -- Science and culture -- This is part of me and I am part of it -- Mind, action and strategy -- Houses and homes -- Seeing the way home -- References -- Index -- Back Cover Summary This book brings the parallels between quantum physics and ancient Asian traditions - Daoism and Buddhism - to an investigation of mind, action and strategy in conditions of radical uncertainty. Engaging with both theory and real-world problems, it explores what it might mean to successfully navigate the potentials of a post-pandemic world Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 27, 2022) Subject International relations -- Philosophy. Quantum theory -- Philosophy Taoism -- Philosophy Buddhism -- Philosophy POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Quantum theory -- Philosophy International relations -- Philosophy Buddhism -- Philosophy Form Electronic book ISBN 1529222648 9781529222630 152922263X 9781529222647

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