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Transformative Pacifism: Critical Theory and Practice

Autor Andrew Fiala
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Defending pacifism against the charge that it is naïvely utopian, Transformative Pacifism offers a critical theory of the existing world order, and points in the direction of concrete ethical and political action. Pacifism is a transformative philosophy with wide ranging implications. It aims to transform political, social, and psychological structures. Its focus is deep and wide. It is similar to other transformative social theories: feminism, ecology, animal welfare, cosmopolitanism, human rights theory. Indeed, behind those theories is often the pacifist idea that violence, power, and domination are wrong. Pacifist theory raises consciousness about unjustifiable violence. This in turn leads to transformations in practical life. Many other books defend nonviolence and pacifism by focusing on failed justifications of war, as well as on the strategic value of nonviolence. This book begins by reviewing and accepting those sort of arguments. It then focuses on what a commitment to pacifism and nonviolence means in terms of a variety of practical issues. Pacifists reject the violent presuppositions of a society based upon power, strength, nationalism, and the system of militarized nation-states. Pacifism transforms psychological, social, political, and economic life.This book will be of interest to those who are disenchanted with ongoing violence, violent rhetoric, terrorism, wars, and the war industry. It gives anyone with pacifist sympathies reassurance: pacifists are not wrong to think that violence and war are immoral, irrational, and insane and that there is always an alternative.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350151338
ISBN-10: 1350151335
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Provides a detailed application of pacifist insights to a variety of issues: gender, domestic life, psychology, culture, the media, politics, economics, the international arena, animals, and the natural world

Notă biografică

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA. He is the author of The Just War Myth (2008), The Philosopher's Voice (2002) and Practical Pacifism (2004), and editor of the Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy (2015).

Cuprins

IntroductionPart 1: TheoryChapter 1: Defending the Indefensiblea) The (Understandable) Failure of Just War Theoryb) The Just War Myth Revisitedc) The Problem of Moral RationalizationChapter 2: Gandhi, Buber, and the Dream of a Great and Lasting Peacea) The Challenge of Nazismb) Fighting Fire with FireC) Quenching and Preventing ViolenceChapter 3: Applied Ethics, Normative Theory, and Critical Social Theorya) The Limits of Applied Ethics b) A Critique of the Pacifism-Realism Continuumc) Pacifism as Normative Theoryd) Analogies: Feminism, Race Theory, Animal Welfare, Ecology, Human Rightse) The Pacific VirtuesChapter 4: On Seeing Structures of Violencea) Structural Violence b) Cultural Violencec) The Frankfurt Schoold) Theory as a Way of SeeingChapter 5: Pacifism, Utopia, and Human Rights a) Critique of Pacifism I: Inconsistentb) Critique of Pacifism II: Immoralc) Critique of Pacifism III: Bourgeois and Reactionaryd) The Human Rights Analogye) A Modest Defense of Utopian Social Theory and PracticePart 2: PracticeChapter 6: The Peaceful Self a) The Soft Nonsense of Spiritual Nonviolenceb) The Strenuous Work of the Peaceful Selfc) Stoicism, Christianity, Buddhismd) Positive PsychologyChapter 7: Domestic Tranquilitya) Domestic violence and family relationsb) Care Ethics and Maternal Thinkingc) The Masculinity Problemd) Peace Begins in the HomeChapter 8: Nonviolent Culture, Cultural Causation, and the Mediaa) Thug Culturesb) The Online Trollsc) Violence and Video Gamesd) Cultural Violence and CausationChapter 9: Nonviolent politics and the economics of peacea) Civility, Hospitality, and Democracyb) Beyond the Profit Motivec) Leadership, Management, and CommunityChapter 10: Beyond Wara) Nonviolent Policing and Weaponryb) The Problem of Military-Industrial-Carceral Complexesc) On a Moral Equivalent of Ward) Pacifism, Anarchism, and CosmopolitanismChapter 11: Eco-pacifisma) Deep Ecology and Nonviolenceb) Toward a Nonviolent Dietc) The Taoist-Epicurean Saged) The Wisdom of Letting BeConclusion: Philosophy as a Practice of Nonviolencea) The Example of Socratesb) Socratic Teachingc) Dialogued) Peace Educatione) Peace PhilosophyBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

As thoughtful and thought-provoking as it is informed and informative, 'Transformative Pacifism: Critical Theory and Practice' is an exceptionally well written, organized and presented study that is especially and unreservedly recommended addition to community, college, and university library Contemporary Philosophy collections and supplemental studies reading lists.
Original in conception, vast in scope and lucid in presentation, Andrew Fiala's book represents a fresh approach to moral philosophy as well as making a major contribution to understanding world peace.
Transformative Pacifism provides a holistic discussion of pacifism as a comprehensive normative theory and critical social theory. The book persuasively assesses and supports the relevance and importance of pacifism as a distinctive ethical and political position at multiple levels, from the personal to the global. This book will be an important resource for those interested in a wide range of issues associated with peace studies, nonviolence studies, and political theory more generally.
Andrew Fiala has been a major voice in the growing interest in pacifism and non-violence in recent years. People look to him for informed, insightful, and committed writings on the major question of our time: how can we move beyond the violence that infuses so many dimensions of our world-and create the world of peace for which humanity has longed? His latest book, Transformative Pacifism, is another vital contribution to these discussions. He develops an expansive conception of pacifism as a philosophy of life in all its dimensions, and in all its relations to the world including the natural world. He is not just concerned with opposing war, but asks: What does it mean to practice peace? His book is written in a style accessible to students and scholars alike. It is a book that can, and should, be read by all. I recommend it in the highest terms.
Fiala's book is an excellent presentation of pacifism as moral and critical theory.