The Poesis of Peace

Notes on Contributors

Editors' Introduction: Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures, and Philosophies

Klaus-Gerd Giesen, Carool Kersten, and Lenart Škof

Part I: Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace

1 Peace Is Not the Absence of War: The Vernaculars of the Humanum

Eduardo Mendieta

2 Peace, Vulnerability, and the Human Imagination

Clemens Sedmak

3 Aesthetic Imagination and Animate Peace

Pauline von Bonsdorff

4 The Primordial Respiratory Peace and the Possibility of Cultivation of Breathing as a Method of Peacemaking

Petri Berndtson

5 On Sacred Genealogies in Antigone and Sāvitrī

Lenart Škof

Part II: Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence

6 Islam Versus the West? Muslim Challenges of a False Binary

Carool Kersten

7 Lanza del Vasto: A Doctrine of Just and Non-Violent Conflict

Klaus-Gerd Giesen

8 ‘Woman under a Roof’: Peace as Ethical Spatiality in Classical Chinese Philosophy

Helena Motoh

9 Making Mettā: The Poesis of Wholesome States among Homeleavers in Pāli Buddhism

Victor Forte

10 Peace in Abhinavagupta’s Poetics: The Curious Case of Śānta Rasa

Tina Košir

Part III: Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace

11 Blanchot’s Hölderlin

Kevin Hart

12 Edgelands: Topographies of Metaphor and the Renewal of Wilderness

Owen Gurrey

13 Know Food, Know Peace? Community-Based Agriculture and the Practice of Non-Violence

Emily A. Holmes

14 An Impossible Peace: The Aesthetic Disruptiveness of Climate Change

Paul Haught