Poesis of Peace

Klaus-Gerd Giesen is Professor of Political Science at the Université d'Auvergne in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He specializes in international relations and political philosophy. More information can be found on his website: www.giesen.fr.Carool Kersten is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World at King’s College London, UK. He is the author and editor of several books on contemporary Islam, including Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values (2015), Alternative Islamic Discourses and Religious Authority (2013), Demystifying the Caliphate (2013), and Cosmopolitans and Heretics (2011).Lenart Škof is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Institute for Philosophical Studies at the Science and Research Centre Koper, Slovenia, and Professor at Alma Mater Europaea, Maribor, Slovenia. He is also Visiting Professor of Religion at the Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He recently co-edited Breathing with Luce Irigaray (2013) and is an author of several books, among them Pragmatist Variations on Ethical and Intercultural Life (2012) and Breath of Proximity: Intersubjectivity, Ethics and Peace (2015). He is President of the Slovenian Society for Comparative Religion. More information can be found at: http://upr-si.academia.edu/LenartŠkof.

• Notes on ContributorsEditors' Introduction: Poesis of Peace: Narratives, Cultures, and PhilosophiesKlaus-Gerd Giesen, Carool Kersten, and Lenart ŠkofPart I: Peacemaking and Narratives of Peace 1 Peace Is Not the Absence of War: The Vernaculars of the HumanumEduardo Mendieta2 Peace, Vulnerability, and the Human ImaginationClemens Sedmak3 Aesthetic Imagination and Animate PeacePauline von Bonsdorff4 The Primordial Respiratory Peace and the Possibility of Cultivation of Breathing as a Method of PeacemakingPetri Berndtson5 On Sacred Genealogies in Antigone and SāvitrīLenart ŠkofPart II: Intercultural Approaches to Peace and Non-Violence6 Islam Versus the West? Muslim Challenges of a False BinaryCarool Kersten7 Lanza del Vasto: A Doctrine of Just and Non-Violent ConflictKlaus-Gerd Giesen8 ‘Woman under a Roof’: Peace as Ethical Spatiality in Classical Chinese PhilosophyHelena Motoh9 Making Mettā: The Poesis of Wholesome States among Homeleavers in Pāli Buddhism Victor Forte10 Peace in Abhinavagupta’s Poetics: The Curious Case of Śānta RasaTina Košir Part III: Poetic Dwellings and Landscapes of Peace11 Blanchot’s Hölderlin Kevin Hart12 Edgelands: Topographies of Metaphor and the Renewal of Wilderness Owen Gurrey13 Know Food, Know Peace? Community-Based Agriculture and the Practice of Non-Violence Emily A. Holmes14 An Impossible Peace: The Aesthetic Disruptiveness of Climate Change Paul Haught