Beschreibung:
This book attempts to approach peace from its theoretical fundations, developing a framework that, first, will address critiques of concepts of peace, which nullify this fundamental relation and are therefore called 'imperial peace' here (also 'liberal peace' elsewhere); and second, for (re)thinking of peace as a tension between 'self' and "other" anchored in a politics of the promotion and cultivation of differences. This framework thus operates as both a critique and a re-articulation of peace.
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; 3.3 'Crisis'/'trauma', the question of beginning, and the permanence of critical exegesis; 4 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