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001 2013043774
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008 140129s2014 enk b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780415742214 (hardback)
020 $z9781315776538 (e-book)
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050 00 $aJZ5538$b.B44 2014
082 00 $a303.6/6$223
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100 1 $aBehr, Hartmut.
245 10 $aPolitics of difference :$bepistemologies of peace /$cHartmut Behr.
264 1 $aLondon ;$aNew York, NY :$bRoutledge,$c2014.
300 $axvii, 184 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aGlobal horizons ;$v12
520 $a"This book develops a notion of differences and "otherness" beyond hegemonic and hierarchical thinking as represented by the legacies of Western philosophical and political thinking. In doing so, it relates to the 20th Century phenomenological discourse, especially to Georg Simmel, Alfred Schütz, Emmanual Lévinas, and Jacques Derrida, and drafts our understanding of difference as a genuine human experience of a social and political world that is in motion and transformative, rather than static and predictable. On this basis of temporalized ontology and its normative consequences, differences are drafted as a positive social and political force and as powerful capacities of transformation and change. In practical terms, this understanding is most important for our theorizing and acting upon peace, peace-building, and conflict solution. Differences appear now not as obstacle to peace and reconciliation, but as lively and constructive articulation of "otherness" and as a positive power of transformation, emancipation, and change.This book will be of interest to students of international relations, philosophy, and political theory. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"This book attempts to approach peace from its theoretical fundations, developing a framework that, first, will address critiques of concepts of peace, which nullify this fundamental relation and are therefore called 'imperial peace' here (also 'liberal peace' elsewhere); and second, for (re)thinking of peace as a tension between 'self' and "other" anchored in a politics of the promotion and cultivation of differences. This framework thus operates as both a critique and a re-articulation of peace"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 164-179) and index.
650 0 $aPeace-building.
650 0 $aPeace$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aPeace (Philosophy)
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / General.$2bisacsh
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/websmall/978041574/9780415742214.jpg