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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821353403321

Titolo

Concerning peace : new perspectives on utopia / / edited by Kai Gregor and Serguei Spetschinsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010

ISBN

1-4438-2355-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GregorKai

SpetschinskySerguei

Disciplina

303.66

335.02

Soggetti

Utopias

Utopias - Philosophy

Peace

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CONCEPT OF PEACE; FOR A DYNAMIC CONCEPT OF PEACE; THE CONCEPT OF PEACE IN INDIAN PHILOSOPHY; MUSIC AND EMOTIONS; THE POSSIBILITY OF GENUINE PEACE; PEACEFUL AGREEMENT; WHY NOBODY WANTS TO LIVE IN UTOPIA; POLITICS; ILLEGITIMATE PEACE; HOSPITALITY AND THE POLITICS OF PEACE; PEACE, HOSPITALITY AND THE FREE MOVEMENT OF LABOUR; WHAT IS INTEGRATION?; SEXING-UP THE WELTBEAMTER; HISTORY; THE FLAG OF MARIA; 'GERMANIA'; MEMORY, COLLECTIVE TRAUMA, AND COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST; CULTURE; INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUEAS A WAY TO REACH PEACE

A COSMOCULTURAL MODEL OF IDENTITY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR PEACECAN LITERARY TRANSLATION HELP SOCIETIES TRANSCEND INTEGRATION PROBLEMS?; FETHULLAH GÜLEN'S SCHOOLS OF LOVE; CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

How is peace to be understood? Does it make any sense to believe in its utopian realisation? Or is its failure necessary, its attempt always transforming into dystopia? Is there something to be saved in the ideal of utopian peace? Can one affirm that peace is in fact a pantopia-an omnipresent reality? The collection of essays, Concerning Peace: New



Perspectives on Utopia, investigates these questions. Its method resides in both a philosophical understanding of peace, and its exemplification ...