The Poesis of Peace

Introduction: Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures and Philosophies Klaus-Gerd Giesen, Carool Kersten and Lenart Skof 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 Sofie 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 Savitri Lenart Skof 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 Metta: The Poesis of Wholesome States among Homeleavers in Pali Buddhism Victor Forte 10 Peace in Abhinavagupta's Poetics: The Curious Case of Santa Rasa Tina Kosir Mazi Part III: Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace 11 Blanchot's Holderlin Kevin Hart 12 Edgelands: Topographies of Metaphor and the Renewal of Wilderness Owen Alan 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