Juliet Bennett: Reimagining Peace through Process Philosophy, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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This book explores the ways in which process philosophers extend and strengthen peace scholars' outlines of a paradigm of / for peace. It then illustrates the value of such a peace paradigm through the example of the climate breakdown, showing how process thinking and process metaphysics intervene at the roots of a global systemic crisis. In doing so, it articulates a new inroad to process philosophy, and illuminates an integrative intervention in the systemic crises of climate change and global inequality.

The "static-process framework" developed in this book makes the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and the fields he has inspired easier to grasp, and offers a tool to assist in the application of process thought to a multitude of issues. This framework depicts tensions between two modes of thought-static and process thinking-according to five "basic orientations": abstract / context, closed / open, isolating / relational; passive / generative; one / multi-dimensional. This pattern is mapped across the domains of metaphysics, economics, politics and as the basis for a new mode of living and organising across multiple layers of society.