ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |10 pages

Editors' Introduction

Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies

part I|68 pages

Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace

part II|70 pages

Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence

chapter 6|16 pages

Islam Versus the West?

Muslim Challenges of a False Binary

chapter 7|11 pages

Lanza del Vasto

A Doctrine of Just and Non-Violent Conflict

chapter 8|13 pages

‘Woman Under a Roof’

Peace as Ethical Spatiality in Classical Chinese Philosophy

chapter 9|13 pages

Making Mettā

The Poesis of Wholesome States among Homeleavers in Pāli Buddhism

chapter 10|15 pages

Peace in Abhinavagupta's Poetics

The Curious Case of Śānta Rasa

part III|68 pages

Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace

chapter 11|25 pages

Blanchot's Hölderlin

chapter 12|13 pages

Edgelands

Topographies of Metaphor and the Renewal of Wilderness

chapter 13|13 pages

Know Food, Know Peace?

Community-Based Agriculture and the Practice of Non-Violence

chapter 14|15 pages

An Impossible Peace

The Aesthetic Disruptiveness of Climate Change