The poesis of peace: narratives, cultures, and philosophies

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Introduction: Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies -- Part I - Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace -- Part II - Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence -- Part III - Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace -- Part I: Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace -- Chapter 1: Peace Is Not the Absence of War: The Vernaculars of the Humanum -- Introduction -- On Homer: The Shields of Peace -- The Legal Orthopedia of Peace -- Conclusion: Peace the Vernacular of the Humanum -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Peace, Vulnerability, and the Human Imagination -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Aesthetic Imagination and Animate Peace -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Animate Peace -- 3. Living with Animals -- 4. Aesthetic Imagination -- 5. Conclusions: Imagining Conviviality -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: The Primordial Respiratory Peace and the Possibility of Cultivation of Breathing as a Method of Peacemaking -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5: On Sacred Genealogies in Antigone and Savitrı -- I -- II -- III -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence -- Chapter 6: Islam Versus the West? Muslim Challenges of a False Binary -- Transforming Islamic Liberation Theology into a Liberation Theodicy for a Decentred World -- Against Dualism: From Philosophies of Despair to a Philosophy of Hope -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 7: Lanza del Vasto: A Doctrine of Just and Non-Violent Conflict -- Introduction -- From Aquinas to Kant to Lanza del Vasto -- Jus ad bellum -- The Ultimate Aim of War (Conflict): A More Perfect Peace (Than before the War) -- The Authority of the Prince: The Declaration of War -- A Just Cause -- A Right Intention