
Learning To Stop: Mindfulness Meditation As Anti-Violence Pedagogy
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN13:
9783031287213
$51.13
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 violenceone 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 iek 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.
- | Author: Remy Y.S. Low
- | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2023
- | Number of Pages: 127 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 3031287215
- | ISBN-13: 9783031287213
- Author:
- Remy Y.S. Low
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- Apr 01, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 127 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 3031287215
- ISBN-13:
- 9783031287213