Overview

Polarization simplifies and deforms language, ideas, and people and reduces social life into an oppositional binary based on harmful “us versus them” narratives. What can we do to bring about a transformation away from polarity to peace? What are the polarities obscuring the path to peace? Is it a question of belief versus belief? Does it make sense to appeal to reason, discourse, and compromise in a polarized climate? What is the difference between harmful and helpful polarities? In the pursuit of peace and justice, the authors in this volume answer these and other questions relating to polarity and politics.

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Author:   Will Barnes
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   386
Weight:   0.613kg
ISBN:  

9789004541320

ISBN 10:   9004541322
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   18 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Deconstructing Polarity 1 Uncivil Obedience: a Method for (Potentially) Decreasing Political Polarization   Jennifer Kling 2 At Peace, with Polarity: Left Cynicism, Cheekiness, and Satire   Will Barnes 3 Democracy and Partisanship   Fuat Gürsözlü 4 De-polarization, Nonviolent Agonism, and the Anarchy of Difference   Andrew Fiala Part 2 Issues in Contemporary Liberal and Moral Theory 5 Democracy, the Carceral State, and the Carceral Ethos: toward a Discourse Democratic Critique of the American Criminal Justice System   Seth Mayer 6 Security, Education, Public Opinion, and Truth Invoking Mill’s Utilitarianism as a Guide to Sustainable Peacemaking in a Fragmented and Frightened World   Phillip Todd 7 Our Hazardous Polarized World: Exploring the Viciousness of Non-responsive Wrongdoing   Court Lewis Part 3 Language 8 Hate Speech as Antithetical to Free Speech: the Real Polarity   Tiffany Montoya 9 Accounting for Moral and Epistemic Culpability in the Contemporary Discourse of Racism   Leland Harper 10 How Pejorative Language Encourages Physical Violence   William Gay 11 The Healing Power of Awareness: Nonviolence in Thought, Word, and Deed   Anthony White 12 The Deadliness of Doing: Agamben, Oakeshott, and Withdrawing from Activity   David Liakos Index

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Will Barnes is the author of multiple articles and book chapters on 20th-century Continental ethical, social, and political philosophy and Indo-Tibetan Buddhist epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics. His monograph A Critique of Liberal Cynicism: Peter Sloterdijk, Judith Butler, and Critical Liberalism was published in 2022. He is on the editorial board for The Acorn Journal: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence, appears as an academic expert on the Ethics Now podcast, and is currently teaching philosophy at New Mexico Highlands University.

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