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Shame, Gender Violence and Ethics: Terrors of Injustice draws from
contemporary, concrete atrocities against women and marginalized
communties to re-conceptualize moral shame and to set moral shame
apart from dimensions of subordination, humiliation, and disgrace.
The inter-disciplinary collection starts with a contribution from a
a Yazidi-survivor of genocidal and sexual violence, whose case
brings together core themes: gender, ethnic and religious identity,
and violence and shame. Further accounts of shame and gendered
violence in this collection take the reader to other and equally
disturbing accounts of lesser- known atrocities from around the.
Although shame is sometimes posited as an innevitable companion to
human life, editors Lenart Skof and She M. Hawke situate the
discussion in the theoretical landscape of shame, and the
contributors challenge this concept through fields as diverse as
law, journalism, activism, philosophy, theology, ecofeminism, and
gender and cultural studies. Their discussion of gendered shame
makes room for it to be both a negative and a redemptive concept.
Combining junior and senior scholarship, this collection examines
power relations in the cycle of shame and violence.
Borders / Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness engages
from interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives some of the
most important issues of the present, which lay at the intersection
of physical, epistemological, spiritual, and existential borders.
The book addresses a variety of topics connected with the role of
the body at the threshold between subjective identities and
intersubjective spaces that are drawn in ontology, epistemology and
ethics, as well as with borders inscribed in intersubjective,
social, and political spaces (such as gender/sexuality/race,
human/animal/nature/technology divisions). The book is divided in
three sections, covering various phenomena of borders and their
possible debordering. The first section offers insights into
bordering topologies, from reflections on the U.S. border to the
development of the concept of the "border" in ancient China. The
second section is dedicated to practices as well as intellectual
ontologies with practical implications bound up with borders in
different cultural and social spheres - from Buddhist nationalism
in Sri Lanka and Myanmar to contemporary photography with its
implications for political systems and reflections on human/animal
border. The third section covers reflections on hospitality that
relate to migration issues, emerging material ethics, and aerial
hospitableness.
The book is a contribution to the fields of pragmatism,
intercultural philosophy, and social and political ethics. The
argument in the book runs along two lines: firstly, four pragmatist
philosophers (William James, John Dewey, Richard Rorty, and Roberto
Mangabeira Unger) are discussed by putting them into their
respective intercultural contexts. They are interpreted as
philosophers that were/are either explicitly or implicitly linked
to some of the key tenets in comparative and/or intercultural
philosophy of the twentieth/twenty-first century. Secondly, the
book looks to their particular works and discusses the role of the
body and its important ethical potential. In their respective
contexts, it looks at the possibilities for linking James, Dewey,
Rorty, and Unger to the original idea of the interculturally
oriented ethical pragmatism. In this endeavor, the book also
approaches the philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer, Luce Irigaray,
and Enrique Dussel in order to show their importance for a
historical and contemporary (feminist and intercultural/global)
debate about the philosophy of American pragmatism. The book
concludes with two chapters - i.e. with a discussion of Irigaray's
'ethical pragmatism' and finally with some reflections on
contemporary Slovenian and French philosophy (Zizek, Badiou) as
linked to the communism-democracy controversy. In both cases,
again, pragmatist and intercultural methods are employed and the
role of the body in their respective oeuvres is reflected.
Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence
with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The
Poesis of Peace applies a multidisciplinary approach to case
studies in both Western and non-Western contexts including Islam,
Chinese philosophy, Buddhist and Hindu traditions. Established and
renowned theologians and philosophers, such as Kevin Hart, Eduardo
Mendieta, and Clemens Sedmak, as well as upcoming and talented
young academics look at peace and non-violence through the lens of
recent scholarly advances on the subject achieved in the fields of
theology, philosophy, political theory, and environmentalism.
Exploring the relations between the concepts of peace and violence
with aesthetics, nature, the body, and environmental issues, The
Poesis of Peace applies a multidisciplinary approach to case
studies in both Western and non-Western contexts including Islam,
Chinese philosophy, Buddhist and Hindu traditions. Established and
renowned theologians and philosophers, such as Kevin Hart, Eduardo
Mendieta, and Clemens Sedmak, as well as upcoming and talented
young academics look at peace and non-violence through the lens of
recent scholarly advances on the subject achieved in the fields of
theology, philosophy, political theory, and environmentalism.
Contributors to this volume consider the implications of 'the Age
of Breath': a spiritual shift in human awareness to the needs of
the other figured through breathing. Awareness of the breath allows
us to attend to our bodies and the bodies of others, to animals,
nature, other cultures, oppressed minorities, and the other of
sexual difference. As a way to connect body and spirit, self and
other, nature and culture, and East and West, breathing emerges as
the significant theological and philosophical gesture of our time.
Philosophy has too often cut off metaphysical thought from this
living, breathing world with its animal and female bodies, just as
religious traditions have repressed the breathing flesh in favour
of calcified word. The re-introduction of breath into philosophy
and theology draws our awareness back to the body, to respect for
the other, and to nature, making awareness of the breath essential
for an embodied ethics of difference in our globalized, ecological
age. These themes are addressed by an international team of
scholars, including Luce Irigaray.
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