ISBN:
9780199394210
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (410 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.6/1
Keywords:
Nonviolence--Middle East--History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In 2011, the Middle East saw more people peacefully protesting long entrenched dictatorships than at any time in its history. The dictators of Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen were deposed in a matter of weeks by nonviolent marches. Imprecisely described as 'the Arab Spring', the revolution has been convulsing the whole region ever since. Beyond an uneven course in different countries, Philosophy of Nonviolence examines how 2011 may have ushered in a fundamental break in world history. The break, the book argues, is animated by nonviolence as the new spirit of the philosophy of history. Philosophy of Nonviolence maps out a system articulating nonviolence in the revolution, the rule of constitutional law it yearns for, and the demand for accountability that inspired the revolution in the first place.
Abstract:
Cover -- Philosophy of Nonviolence -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Summary Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- Synopsis -- Highlights -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- 1. The Middle East Nonviolent Revolution: A Philosophical Manifesto -- Definitions -- A Philosophical Manifesto -- Revolution and Philosophy -- Part one Revolution -- 2. Introduction: Nonviolence between Order of Reasons and Decrees of Reality -- 3. A Brief History of Nonviolence in the Middle East -- Basics of Nonviolence Again -- Dates and Birthdates -- Protagonists and Leadership -- Women and Nonviolent Revolution -- Causes -- Process -- The Spiral -- 4. Shattered Political Language: Reconstructing a Humanist Culture of Nonviolence -- Shattered Political Language -- Terrorism -- Fitna and Other Polysemies -- Reconstructing Nonviolent Culture in the Humanist Tradition -- The Kawakibi Template -- Poet Philosophers -- Philosophy and Sufism -- Writing Unviolent History -- A Cautionary Conclusion -- 5. Nonviolence: The Central Philosophical Paradox -- 6. Conclusion: Rhythms of Nonviolence -- Part two Constitutionalism -- 7. Introduction -- 8. Caveat: Against Secession -- 9. Constitutional Ruins and the Unfathomable Politics of Transition -- Constitutional Ruins and the New Order -- Republic Meets Monarchy: The Middle East Monarblic -- The Unfathomable Politics of Transition -- Constitutions and Elections -- The Missing Link: A Grand Revolutionary Coalition -- Politics and Nonviolence -- 10. Constitution-Writing: LEJFARC's Universal Template -- A Dull Exercise, LEJ(F)ARC....... -- ... Potentially -- An Alternative View: The Civil Society (CS) Prism -- Civil Society Vetting the Constitution -- Civil Society Making the Constitution -- Civil Society in the Constitution -- 11. Middle Eastern Constitutionalism.
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