{"product_id":"transformative-pacifism-critical-theory-and-practice-paperback-2","title":"Transformative Pacifism: Critical Theory and Practice - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Fiala\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDefending pacifism against the charge that it is naïvely utopian, \u003ci\u003eTransformative Pacifism\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical theory of the existing world order, and points in the direction of concrete ethical and political action. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePacifism is a transformative philosophy with wide ranging implications. It aims to transform political, social, and psychological structures. Its focus is deep and wide. It is similar to other transformative social theories: feminism, ecology, animal welfare, cosmopolitanism, human rights theory. Indeed, behind those theories is often the pacifist idea that violence, power, and domination are wrong. Pacifist theory raises consciousness about unjustifiable violence. This in turn leads to transformations in practical life. Many other books defend nonviolence and pacifism by focusing on failed justifications of war, as well as on the strategic value of nonviolence. This book begins by reviewing and accepting those sort of arguments. It then focuses on what a commitment to pacifism and nonviolence means in terms of a variety of practical issues. Pacifists reject the violent presuppositions of a society based upon power, strength, nationalism, and the system of militarized nation-states. Pacifism transforms psychological, social, political, and economic life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book will be of interest to those who are disenchanted with ongoing violence, violent rhetoric, terrorism, wars, and the war industry. It gives anyone with pacifist sympathies reassurance: pacifists are not wrong to think that violence and war are immoral, irrational, and insane and that there is always an alternative.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Fiala\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Just War Myth\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), \u003ci\u003eThe Philosopher's Voice\u003c\/i\u003e (2002) and \u003ci\u003ePractical Pacifism\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), and editor of the Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy (2015).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 20, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47346728468729,"sku":"9781350151338","price":84.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/S1RhMDdUZGVrSld6cVc0bVEweG5EUT09_a66b85ef-cd6d-4d0e-861d-66256c742710.webp?v=1769757007","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/transformative-pacifism-critical-theory-and-practice-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}