Politics Of Difference: Epistemologies Of Peace (global Horizons)

Synopsis

This Book Develops A Notion Of Differences And Otherness Beyond Hegemonic And Hierarchical Thinking As Represented By The Legacies Of Western Philosophical And Political Thinking. In Doing So, It Relates To The 20th Century Phenomenological Discourse, 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, Differences Are Drafted As A Positive Social And Political Force And As Powerful Capacities Of Transformation And Change. In Practical Terms, This Understanding Is Most Important For Our Theorizing And Acting Upon Peace, Peace-building, And Conflict Solution. Differences Appear Now Not As Obstacle To Peace And Reconciliation, But As Lively And Constructive Articulation Of Otherness And As A Positive Power Of Transformation, Emancipation, And Change.this Book Will Be Of Interest To Students Of International Relations, Philosophy, And Political Theory. -- 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-- Introduction -- In Defence Of Ontology -- The Problem Of Otherness And Modes Of Temporality -- Phenomenologies Of Otherness -- From E Pluribus Unum To Fatemini Pluribus Pluribum -- Conclusions: Conditions Of The Possibility Of Peace. Hartmut Behr. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.