Interpretations of Peace in History and Culture [electronic resource] /
Dietrich, W.author.
Koppensteiner, Norbert.
This is the first volume in the trilogy 'Many Peaces' on transrational peace and elicitive conflict transformation. It proposes an innovative analysis of peace interpretations in global history and contemporary cultures of peace, the so-called five families of energetic, moral, modern, post-modern, and transrational.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Author's perspective; 1.2 Research interest; 1.3 Method and structure; 1.4 State of the art; 2 Energetic Interpretations of Peace; 2.1 The Great Goddess and the energetic peaces; 2.2 The peaces of the Holy Wedding; 2.3 The Great Triad; 2.4 What is an energetic image of peace?; 3 Moral Interpretations of Peace; 3.1 The one truth of Phobos; 3.2 Great pax and small vride; 3.3 Peace as right to hospitality; 3.4 What is a moral image of peace?; 4 Modern Interpretations of Peace; 4.1 Eros and Agape in modern mysticism
4.2 The flight from Phobos to Thanatos4.3 Anthropological pessimism/ anthropological optimism; 4.4 What is a modern image of peace?; 4.5 On the mechanistic basis of the modern image of peace; 5 Postmodern Interpretations of Peace; 5.1 The return of Dionysus to Apollo; 5.2 The turning point: systems theories and peaces; 5.3 Thanatos is rampant; 5.4 The twisting of postmodern peace research; 5.5 What is a postmodern image of peace?; 6 Transrational Interpretations of Peace; 6.1 Unmodern messages from India; 6.2 On the polymorphous pax universalis of the transpersonal peaces
6.3 Humanistic psychology and transrational peaces6.4 The ethics and aesthetics of transrational peaces; 6.5 What are transrational peaces?; 7 Conclusion of the First Volume; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This is the first volume in the trilogy 'Many Peaces' on transrational peace and elicitive conflict transformation. It proposes an innovative analysis of peace interpretations in global history and contemporary cultures of peace, the so-called five families of energetic, moral, modern, post-modern, and transrational.
World politics.
International relations.
Peace.
Political science.
Public policy.
Political History.
International Relations.
Conflict Studies.
Political Science.
Peace Studies.
Public Policy.