Nonviolent Perspectives

Andrew Fitz-Gibbon is a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor and Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Cortland.

• Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Is Love Nonviolent?; 2 Spiritual Practice as a Foundation for Peacemaking; 3 The Praxis of Nonviolence and the Care of Children Who Have Been Victims of Violence; 4 The War in Iraq: What Works?; 5 Rehabilitating Nonresistance; 6 Perpetual Violence? Mimesis and Anamnesis; 7 Intersectionality and Love; 8 Somaesthetics: Body Consciousness and Nonviolence; 9 The Reasonableness of Sentimentalism and Violence; 10 Peace; 11 The Beloved Community: A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective; 12 Return to Earth: A New Natural Philosophy?; 13 Becoming Nonviolent: Sociobiological, Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives; 14 The Ethics of Care and Violence; 15 The Economic Consequences of the Peace and Nationalism: Revisiting John Maynard Keynes; 16 Pragmatic Nonviolence; Bibliography; Index

Andrew Fitz-Gibbon is one of the most important scholars thinking about peace and nonviolence. He discusses a wide variety of topics in an engaging and eye-opening manner. These essays reflect the breadth of his knowledge and the depth of his concern for building a more peaceful and loving world.”  —Andrew Fiala, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Fresno State University