Learning to Stop
Mindfulness Meditation as Anti-violence Pedagogy
This 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.
| Autor: | Low, Remy Y.S. |
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| ISBN: | 9783031287213 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 117 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.04.2023 |
| Untertitel: | Mindfulness Meditation as Anti-violence Pedagogy |
| Schlagworte: | Contemplative practice Neurodecolonization Peace Education Slavoj zizek Violence mindfulness |
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