Politics of Difference: Epistemologies of Peace (Global by Hartmut Behr

By Hartmut Behr

This e-book develops a thought of modifications and 'otherness' past hegemonic and hierarchical pondering as represented by means of the legacies of Western philosophical and political thought.


In doing so, it pertains to the phenomenological discourse of the 20 th century, in particular to Georg Simmel, Alfred Schütz, Emmanual Lévinas, and Jacques Derrida, and drafts our figuring out of distinction as a real human adventure of a social and political international that's in movement and transformative, instead of static and predictable. in this foundation of temporalized ontology and its normative effects, variations are drafted as a favorable social and political strength and as robust capacities of transformation and alter. In functional phrases, this knowing is most vital for our theorizing and performing upon peace, peace-building, and clash answer. changes now look no longer as hindrance to peace and reconciliation, yet as full of life and confident articulations of 'otherness' and as a favorable strength of transformation, emancipation, and change.


This publication can be of curiosity to scholars of diplomacy, philosophy and political theory.

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