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Zusatztext Fiala's book is an excellent presentation of pacifism as moral and critical theory. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA. He is the author of The Just War Myth (Rowman and Littlefield, 2008), The Philosopher's Voice (SUNY Press, 2002) and Practical Pacifism (Algora Press, 2004). Vorwort This book argues that pacifism provides a critical social theory with practical implications, similar to feminism and other critical social theories. Zusammenfassung Defending pacifism against the charge that it is naïvely utopian, Transformative Pacifism offers a critical theory of the existing world order, and points in the direction of concrete ethical and political action. Pacifism is a transformative philosophy with wide ranging implications. It aims to transform political, social, and psychological structures. Its focus is deep and wide. It is similar to other transformative social theories: feminism, ecology, animal welfare, cosmopolitanism, human rights theory. Indeed, behind those theories is often the pacifist idea that violence, power, and domination are wrong. Pacifist theory raises consciousness about unjustifiable violence. This in turn leads to transformations in practical life. Many other books defend nonviolence and pacifism by focusing on failed justifications of war, as well as on the strategic value of nonviolence. This book begins by reviewing and accepting those sort of arguments. It then focuses on what a commitment to pacifism and nonviolence means in terms of a variety of practical issues. Pacifists reject the violent presuppositions of a society based upon power, strength, nationalism, and the system of militarized nation-states. Pacifism transforms psychological, social, political, and economic life.This book will be of interest to those who are disenchanted with ongoing violence, violent rhetoric, terrorism, wars, and the war industry. It gives anyone with pacifist sympathies reassurance: pacifists are not wrong to think that violence and war are immoral, irrational, and insane and that there is always an alternative. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart 1: TheoryChapter 1: Defending the Indefensiblea) The (Understandable) Failure of Just War Theoryb) The Just War Myth Revisitedc) The Problem of Moral RationalizationChapter 2: Gandhi, Buber, and the Dream of a Great and Lasting Peacea) The Challenge of Nazismb) Fighting Fire with FireC) Quenching and Preventing ViolenceChapter 3: Applied Ethics, Normative Theory, and Critical Social Theorya) The Limits of Applied Ethics b) A Critique of the Pacifism-Realism Continuumc) Pacifism as Normative Theoryd) Analogies: Feminism, Race Theory, Animal Welfare, Ecology, Human Rightse) The Pacific VirtuesChapter 4: On Seeing Structures of Violencea) Structural Violence b) Cultural Violencec) The Frankfurt Schoold) Theory as a Way of SeeingChapter 5: Pacifism, Utopia, and Human Rights a) Critique of Pacifism I: Inconsistentb) Critique of Pacifism II: Immoralc) Critique of Pacifism III: Bourgeois and Reactionaryd) The Human Rights Analogye) A Modest Defense of Utopian Social Theory and PracticePart 2: PracticeChapter 6: The Peaceful Self a) The Soft Nonsense of Spiritual Nonviolenceb) The Strenuous Work of the Peaceful Selfc) Stoicism, Christianity, Buddhismd) Positive PsychologyChapter 7: Domestic Tranquilitya) Domestic violence and family relationsb) Care Ethics and Maternal Thinkingc) The Masculinity Problemd) Peace Begins in the HomeChapter 8: Nonviolent Culture, Cultural Causation, and the Mediaa) Thug Culturesb) The Online Trollsc) Violence and Video Gamesd) Cultural Violence and CausationChapter 9: Nonviolent politics and the economics of peacea) Civility, Hospitality, and Democracyb) Beyond the Profit Motivec) Leadership, Management, and CommunityChapter 1...
