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Dialogue and the New Cosmopolitanism
Dialogue and the New Cosmopolitanism: Conversations with Edward Demenchonok stands in opposition to the doctrine that might makes right and that the purpose of politics is to establish domination over others rather than justice and the good life for all. In the pursuit of the latter goal, the book stresses the importance of dialogue with participants who take seriously the views and interests of others and who seek to reach a fair solution. In this sense, the book supports the idea of cosmopolitanism, which—by contrast to empire—involves multi-lateral cooperation and thus the quest for a just cosmopolis. The international contributors to this volume, with their varied perspectives, are all committed to this same quest. Edited by Fred Dallmayr, the chapters take the form of conversations with Edward Demenchonok, a well-known practitioner of international and cross-cultural philosophy. The conversations are structured in parts that stress the philosophical, anthropological, cultural, and ethical dimensions of global dialogue. In our conflicted world, it is inspiring to find so many authors from different places agreeing on a shared vision.
From Rainforest to Cane Field in Cuba
In this award-winning environmental history of Cuba since the age of Columbus, Reinaldo Funes Monzote emphasizes the two processes that have had the most dramatic impact on the island’s landscape: deforestation and sugar cultivation. During the first 300 years of Spanish settlement, sugar plantations arose primarily in areas where forests had been cleared by the royal navy, which maintained an interest in management and conservation for the shipbuilding industry. The sugar planters won a decisive victory in 1815, however, when they were allowed to clear extensive forests, without restriction, for cane fields and sugar production. This book is the first to consider Cuba’s vital sugar indu...
Peace, Culture, and Violence
Peace, Culture, and Violence examines deeper sources of violence by providing a critical reflection on the forms of violence that permeate everyday life and our inability to recognize these forms of violence. Exploring the elements of culture that legitimize and normalize violence, the essays collected in this volume invite us to recognize and critically approach the violent aspects of reality we live in and encourage us to envision peaceful alternatives. Including chapters written by important scholars in the fields of Peace Studies and Social and Political Philosophy, the volume represents an endeavour to seek peace in a world deeply marred by violence. Topics include: thug culture, language, hegemony, police violence, war on drugs, war, terrorism, gender, anti-Semitism, and other topics. Contributors are: Amin Asfari, Edward Demenchonok, Andrew Fiala, William Gay, Fuat Gursozlu, Joshua M. Hall , Ron Hirschbein, Todd Jones, Sanjay Lal, Alessandro Rovati, Laleye Solomon Akinyemi, David Speetzen, and Lloyd Steffen.
Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World
Events in recent times have led many to rightly question the compatibility such traditionally revered concepts as democracy, liberal tolerance, and capitalism have with the realization of social peace. Clearly, it can no longer be uncritically assumed that the values championed by earlier generations are conducive to reaching peaceful outcomes. In Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World, a wide array of scholars explore the challenges presented in the current age to conventional understandings of what is required for peace and provide insights that are both practical and constructive to a world in urgent need of conceiving new ways forward.
Worldviews and Cultures
Globalization brings people and cultures together, producing, in addition to deep and rich encounters, exclusion, racism, xenophobia and asymmetries. The present book takes these issues implicitly as its starting point by thoroughly reflecting on them from a perspective of worldviews, as one of many approaches. More specifically, it focuses on people’s implicit and explicit interpretations and assumptions of the world, of themselves and of others. Often deeply rooted and hard to change, they have an important function, for without them we would continually need to question what we do and what we think. In their absolutist form, these assumptions may become a barrier for open-mindedness, an...
Entre la tica y la pol¡tica: ticas de la sociedad civil
La relación entre ética y política es una de las claves para entender las aportaciones que la sociedad civil puede realizar a la construcción de nuestras democracias. Las actas del XII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Ética y Filosofía que presenta esta publicación electrónica constituyen un buen material para la reflexión y la crítica sobre la relación entre el lo que es deseable y lo que es posible.
Instituciones político-jurídicas y desarrollo sostenible
Ás veces o evidente semella ser o que ofrece máis dúbidas, ou o que se ve como un camiño incerto ou mesmo rexeitable. Iso é o que acontece, dende o meu punto de vista, cos plantexamentos ou coas propostas de relación entre Galicia e os países de fala portuguesa, nomeadamente o Brasil. É certo que a forza centrípeta que ten exercido Bruxelas a través dos diferentes instrumentos políticos e xurídicos, e especialmente económicos (a través do Fondo Europeo de Desenvolvemento Rexional, FEDER), obrigou a dirixir á ollada cara a Unión, e crear vías rápidas, alonxadas da pausa e paciencias do camiño de peregrinación medieval, dirixidas con urxencia á converxer. Nese proceso houb...
La cuestión del reconocimiento en América Latina
Para los editores, La cuestión del reconocimiento refiere a la vez a una perspectiva y a un problema que va más allá de las divergencias en las posturas de los autores presentados. Es una perspectiva porque asume la complejidad de la teoría político-social de Honneth analizada desde el contexto latinoamericano. Es problema, en el sentido del postulado estricto de un a priori filosófico par excellence, pero siempre aceptado desde una argumentación filosófica que asume la miseria social de seres humanos que no son reconocidos como personas y/o colectivos, siendo así su universalismo, contextualizable, tal como lo propone Honneth desde La Lucha por el reconocimiento (1992). Los autores del libro, en su mayoría de América Latina, discuten según sus perspectivas personales y tradiciones filosóficas generando un fructífero diálogo Sur-Norte, que los editores han impulsado en publicaciones anteriores.
