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1 online resource |
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Value Inquiry Book series ; 268 |
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Value inquiry book series ; 268.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Editorial Foreword; Guest Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part One: Introducing Peace in Public Life; ONE How Philosophers Advance Peace in the Public Sphere; TWO Dorothy Day's Pursuit of Public Peace through Word and Action; THREE Peace Voice: Getting Peace Professionals to Go Public; Part Two: Current Events and Peace Theory; FOUR Anti-Immigration Initiatives and Weil's Theory of Affliction; FIVE Interrogation, False Confessions, and the Intuitions of Jurors; SIX Ignacio Martín-Baró and the 99%: From El Salvador to Occupy |
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SEVEN Pluralism, Identity, and ViolencePart Three: Peace Theory in Depth; EIGHT Violence as the Conflictual Denial of Social Being: A Relational Approach; NINE On the Nature of Public Life in Plato and Rancière; TEN Radical Protest and Dialectical Ethics; Works Cited; About the Authors; Index |
| Summary |
To a world assaulted by private interests, this book argues that peace must be a public thing. Distinguished philosophers of peace have always worked publicly for public results. Opposing nuclear proliferation, organizing communities of the disinherited, challenging violence within status quo establishments, such are the legacies of truly engaged philosophers of peace. This volume remembers those legacies, reviews the promise of critical thinking for crises today, and expands the free range of thinking needed to create more mindful and peaceful relations. With essays by committed peace philosophers, this volume shows how public engagement has been a significant feature of peace philosophers such as Camus, Sartre, Dewey, and Dorothy Day. Today we also confront historical opportunities to transform practices for immigration, police interrogation, and mental health, as we seek to sustain democracies of increasing multicultural diversity. In such cases our authors consider points of view developed by renowned thinkers such as Weil, Mouffe, Conway, and Martín-Baró. This volume also presents critical analysis of concepts for thinking about violence, reconsiders Plato's philosophy of justice, and examines the role of ethical theory for liberation struggles such as Occupy! |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Peace (Philosophy)
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PHILOSOPHY -- Essays.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Reference.
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Peace (Philosophy)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Moses, Greg, editor
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Presbey, Gail M., editor
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| ISBN |
9789401210522 |
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9401210527 |
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1306578868 |
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9781306578868 |
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