Learning To Stop: Mindfulness Meditation As Anti-Violence Pedagogy

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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.


  • | 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