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OverviewThis book is a philosophical and historical study that explores how meditative practices for cultivating mindfulness can be regarded as a unique form of education against violence—one that emphasizes stopping and contemplation as a necessary precursor to action. It brings together the idiosyncratic but insightful musings on violence by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek with recent research on mindfulness and violence as a lens. Using this lens, it looks at two exemplary educators and how they taught mindfulness meditation as a way of resisting the types of violence they and their students faced: the Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh amidst the brutality of the Second Indochina War (1955-1975), and the African-American studies professor and cultural critic bell hooks in the face of systemic oppression in the United States of the 1980s. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Remy Y.S. LowPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2023 Weight: 0.308kg ISBN: 9783031287213ISBN 10: 3031287215 Pages: 117 Publication Date: 01 April 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsChapter 1. ‘Just sit and wait’: Žižek’s kōan Chapter 2. ‘I would prefer not to’: Violence, Subtraction, and Contemplative Pedagogy Chapter 3. ‘Don't just do something, sit there’: Thich Nhat Hanh and the School of Youth for Social Service Chapter 4. ‘There is no change without contemplation’: bell hooks and the Sisters of the Yam Chapter 5. ‘I will not run’: Mindfulness in contexts of violenceReviewsAuthor InformationRemy Y.S. Low is Senior Lecturer in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is also the author of The Mind and Teachers in the Classroom: Exploring Definitions of Mindfulness (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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