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Power and Crisis: Plotting Paths to Justice and Peace
Series: - Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 414
- Philosophy of Peace, Volume: 414
Volume Editor:
While other eras have faced severe challenges, our crises—including nuclear war and climate catastrophe—involve unprecedented existential threats to human life. It can seem as if our rulers are unable or unwilling to picture an alternative to the status quo. For many, there is insufficient hope for a good future, and scores of people, particularly the young, are gripped with fear and nihilism about their prospects. This volume brings together a diverse group of thinkers appealing to a diverse range of sources responding both to the crisis in power, and the crises we need power to address more skillfully, even if this requires rethinking the role of power itself. It is my hope as editor of this book that you will find resources for and examples of warm-hearted and hard-headed efforts at creating more just and peaceful forms of life. Taken as a whole, this volume is not intended to provide precisely what political project or theory is required to successfully address the crises in power and the crises power faces, it is more a collection of prompts to focus our efforts on realizing a better world for operating under the shared commitment of mutual respect, mutual critique, and the importance of clear critical thought in the pursuit of a sane, just, and stable future.
Will Barnes is a comparative philosopher working primarily with social and political philosophy and non-Western philosophy. He is the editor of Politics, Polarity, and Peace (Brill 2023) and the author of A Critique of Liberal Cynicism (Rowman & Littlefield 2022), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews. He currently teaches Philosophy, Politics, and Religious Studies at The University of New Mexico, and is working on a manuscript for Palgrave MacMillan entitled “Virtues of Unknowing”: an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural work on ethical, social, and political philosophy.
This volume will be of interest to those within and outside academic interested in polarity, politics, and peace from sociological, philosophical, and historical perspectives. It will be invaluable to scholars, activists, and practitioners interested in non-violence, social justice, and progressive socio-political movements. This volume will be an invaluable resource for educators teaching in peace studies, politics, sociology, history, philosophy, as well as in the humanities and social sciences more generally. It is an accessible, clearly argued, and pluralistic contribution to the discipline and practice of open critical dialogue oriented to improving the collective human lot.