1st Edition
The Poesis of Peace Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies
Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The Poesis of Peace applies a multidisciplinary approach to case studies in both Western and non-Western contexts including Islam, Chinese philosophy, Buddhist and Hindu traditions. Established and renowned theologians and philosophers, such as Kevin Hart, Eduardo Mendieta, and Clemens Sedmak, as well as upcoming and talented young academics look at peace and non-violence through the lens of recent scholarly advances on the subject achieved in the fields of theology, philosophy, political theory, and environmentalism.
Notes on Contributors
Editors' Introduction: Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies
Klaus-Gerd Giesen, Carool Kersten, and Lenart Škof
Part I: Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace
1 Peace Is Not the Absence of War: The Vernaculars of the Humanum
Eduardo Mendieta
2 Peace, Vulnerability, and the Human Imagination
Clemens Sedmak
3 Aesthetic Imagination and Animate Peace
Pauline von Bonsdorff
4 The Primordial Respiratory Peace and the Possibility of Cultivation of Breathing as a Method of Peacemaking
Petri Berndtson
5 On Sacred Genealogies in Antigone and Sāvitrī
Lenart Škof
Part II: Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence
6 Islam Versus the West? Muslim Challenges of a False Binary
Carool Kersten
7 Lanza del Vasto: A Doctrine of Just and Non-Violent Conflict
Klaus-Gerd Giesen
8 ‘Woman under a Roof’: Peace as Ethical Spatiality in Classical Chinese Philosophy
Helena Motoh
9 Making Mettā: The Poesis of Wholesome States among Homeleavers in Pāli Buddhism
Victor Forte
10 Peace in Abhinavagupta’s Poetics: The Curious Case of Śānta Rasa
Tina Košir
Part III: Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace
11 Blanchot’s Hölderlin
Kevin Hart
12 Edgelands: Topographies of Metaphor and the Renewal of Wilderness
Owen Gurrey
13 Know Food, Know Peace? Community-Based Agriculture and the Practice of Non-Violence
Emily A. Holmes
14 An Impossible Peace: The Aesthetic Disruptiveness of Climate Change
Paul Haught
Biography
Klaus-Gerd Giesen is Professor of Political Science at the Université d'Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He specializes in international relations and political philosophy. More information can be found on his website: www.giesen.fr.
Carool Kersten is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World at King’s College London, UK. He is the author and editor of several books on contemporary Islam, including Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values (2015), Alternative Islamic Discourses and Religious Authority (2013), Demystifying the Caliphate (2013), and Cosmopolitans and Heretics (2011).
Lenart Škof is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia, and Professor at Alma Mater Europaea, Maribor, Slovenia. He is also Visiting Professor of Religion at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He recently co-edited Breathing with Luce Irigaray (2013) and is an author of several books, among them Pragmatist Variations on Ethical and Intercultural Life (2012) and Breath of Proximity: Intersubjectivity, Ethics and Peace (2015). He is President of the Slovenian Society for Comparative Religion. More information can be found at: http://upr-si.academia.edu/LenartŠkof.
