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Author Martinon, Jean-Paul. author.

Title After 'Rwanda' : In Search of a New Ethics / Jean-Paul Martinon
Published New York : Editions Rodopi, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in intercultural philosophy = Studien zur Interkulturellen Philosophie = Etudes de philosophie interculturelle ; 24
Studien zur interkulturellen Philosophie ; 24.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1: MATERNITY -- UBUNTU; 1. Here I am; 2. Without God; 3. Maternity; 4. Ubuntu; 5. Filiality; 6. A Logical Absurdity; CHAPTER 2: MATRIX -- AKANTU; 1. Murders; 2. Vanquished; 3. The Matrix; 4. Elect-Risk; 5. The Blow Does Not Come; 6. Neither Justice Nor Law; CHAPTER 3: MATERIAL -- AHANTU; 1. Eyes; 2. Face; 3. Body; 4. Scene; 5. Horizon; 6. Palaver; CHAPTER 4: MATURITY -- AHANTU; 1. God; 2. Embodiment; 3. Otherwise; 4. Present; 5. Sacyega & Ngoma; 6. History; CHAPTER 5: MATRIMONY -- UBUMUNTU; 1. Side-by-side; 2. To-let-be
3. Face-to-face4. Side-by-Side-Face-to-Face; 5. Matrimony; 6. Kubana; CHAPTER 6: MATTER -- UKUNTU; 1. Writing, Reading; 2. What Comes? Here I am; 3. What is? Thou Shall Not Kill; 4. Kirazira; 5. A Hermeneutic Effort; 6. Necessity; CHAPTER 7: MATERIEL -- IKINTU; 1. Stop; 2. By the Crater; 3. With-Out Distance; 4. Vigilance; 5. Work Procreation; 6. At War, in Love; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary Is writing about peace after the Rwandan Genocide self-defeating? Whether it is the intensity of the massacres, the popularity of the genocide, or the imaginary forms of cruelty, however one looks at it, everything in the Rwandan Genocide appears to defy once again the possibility of thinking peace anew. In order to address this problem, this book investigates the work of specific French and Rwandese philosophers in order to renew our understanding of peace today. Through this path-breaking investigation, peace no longer stands for an ideal in the future, but becomes a structure of inter-subje
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject United Nations Rwanda
SUBJECT United Nations Rwanda fast
Subject Humanity.
Political ethics.
Genocide -- Rwanda
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
Atrocities
Genocide
Humanity
Political ethics
SUBJECT Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116783
Subject Rwanda
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789401209670
9401209677
1306167523
9781306167529
9789042037113
9042037113