Politics, Polarity, and Peace

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54132-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 386, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 613 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy of Peace

The arguments within the contemporary literature paint a clear picture: popular discourse is marked with extreme partisanship and polarization, threatening democracy, tolerance, diversity, pluralism, and cooperation. Polarization simplifies and deforms language, ideas, and people. Polarization reduces the complexities of social life into an oppositional binary based on crude distinctions revolving around partial and harmful reified conceptions of self and other. Since the egocentric “us versus them” narratives catalyze conflicts which tend to violence, polarization is itself a cause of violence. The project of peace, then, is aided by the project of depolarization. But what can we do to bring about a transformation away from polarity to peace? What are the real polarities obscuring the path to peace? Is it a question of freedom versus control? Is it one of absolutism versus open-mindedness? Is it good versus evil? In a time of increasingly poisonous national politics, widening tribal polarity, and fragmented and fragmenting communities, what sense does it even make to appeal to reason, discourse, and compromise? The authors in this volume attempt to answer these and other questions relating to polarity and politics in the pursuit of peace and justice, the guiding ideals of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace and Brill's Philosophy of Peace series.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barnes, Will

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Will Barnes is the author of multiple articles and book chapters on 20th-century Continental ethical, social, and political philosophy and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. His monograph A Critique of Liberal Cynicism: Peter Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical Liberalism was published in 2022. He is on the editorial board for The Acorn Journal: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence, appears as an academic expert on the Ethics Now podcast, and is currently teaching philosophy at New Mexico Highlands University.