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.

• | 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