Inventing peace
Subtitle: a dialogue on perception
By: Wim Wenders and Mary Zournazi
Contributors: Zournazi, Mary, author
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9781780766935
Subjects: Peace (Philosophy)
Description: Inventing Peace' revolves around the question of how we look at the world, but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering and violence. What are the ethical and moral consequences of looking, but not seeing, and, most of all, what has become of the notion of peace in all this? In the form of a written dialogue, Wim Wenders and Mary Zournazi consider this question as one of the fundamental issues of our times as well as the need to reinvent a visual and moral language for peace. Inspired by various cinematic, philosophical, literary and artistic examples, Wenders and Zournazi reflect on the need for a change of perception in the everyday as well as in the creation of images. In its unique style and method, 'Inventing Peace' demonstrates an approach to peace through sacred, ethical and spiritual means, to provide an alternative to the inhumanity of war and violence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and filmography.
Table of contents: title: A Prelude to Looking at Peace; title: 1 Meetings- Conversations on War and Peace; title: 2 Inventing Peace; title: 3 Enduring Images; title: 4 Imagining the Real; title: 5 Which Future of Seeing?; title: A Postcard from Joshua Tree; title: Postscript- Do Men Fuck it Up?!