ISBN:
9780415742214
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (203 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Politics of Difference : Epistemologies of Peace
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book develops a notion of differences and 'otherness' beyond hegemonic and hierarchical thinking as represented by the legacies of Western philosophical and political thought.In doing so, it relates to the phenomenological discourse of the twentieth century, especially to Georg Simmel, Alfred Schütz, Emmanual Lévinas, and Jacques Derrida, and drafts our understanding of difference as a genuine human experience of a social and political world that is in motion and transformative, rather than static and predictable. On this basis of temporalized ontology and its normative consequences, diff
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction; 1 In Defence of Ontology; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 From relativism to relationism: on reading and normativity; 1.3 Ontology is not (necessarily) essentialism: on temporality; 2 The Problem of "Otherness" and Modes of Temporality; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Western ontologies and the construction of "otherness"; 2.3 Searching for thinking difference beyond; 3 Phenomenologies of "Otherness"; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Being-in-time, transformativity, and sociability
Description / Table of Contents:
3.3 'Crisis'/'trauma', the question of beginning, and the permanence of critical exegesis4 From E Pluribus Unum to Fatemini Pluribus Pluribum; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Non-silence and the embrace of differences; 4.3 Western narratives of 'peace': a critique; 4.4 Peace as living towards differences; Conclusions: Conditions of the possibility of peace; Bibliography; Index of names; Index of subjects
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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