Eternal peace of the graveyard: The language of peace discourse and the construction of the global humanitarian concentration camp

Sonderling, Stefan

doi:10.1080/02500167.2011.627566

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“…When I maintain that critics have frequently labeled pacifism as utopian in a pejorative sense, I am reconstructing a general tendency shared across many, often divergent positions. Some authors explicitly refer to the term “utopia” to deplore pacifist initiatives (Orend 2013, 247); others, however, use notions such as “otherworldly” (Primoratz 2002, 221) or “unrealistic” (Sonderling 2012, 65) to condemn nonviolence.…”

Section: Is Pacifism Utopian?mentioning

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Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism

Thaler¹

2019

Perspect. polit.

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A common complaint about pacifism holds that it is utopian, in a pejorative sense. The worry can take various forms and directions, but when it is couched in terms of just war theory it usually includes accusations of pacifism’s immorality, inconsistency and impracticality. Contemporary defenders of pacifism have responded to this complaint by delineating a highly sophisticated, empirically informed account of pacifism that foregrounds its real-world effectiveness. This article takes a different route to vindicating pacifism via a more nuanced picture of what is specifically utopian about it. I propose that peace, in at least some of its guises, can be described as a minor, grounded utopia; it is a desire for an alternative future without war and violence, whose pursuit blurs the boundaries between thought and action. Reconstructing both prefiguration and testimony as practical modes of this kind of pacifism, I maintain that minor, grounded utopias are sites rife with conflict and contestation.

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Section: Is Pacifism Utopian?mentioning

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Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism

Thaler¹

2019

Perspect. polit.

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“…In the twentieth century Emmanuel Levinas (1991, 23) contends that war is human reality and ultimately the human being manifests himself in war. In the twenty-first century a journalist, Chris Hedges (2003, 3-7), rediscovers that war remains a force that gives us meaning when peace has emptied all meaning from life in the postmodern world (Fukuyama 1992, 328-331;Gray 2003, 85;Hammond 2007, 11;Sonderling 2012).…”

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I Kill, Therefore I Am: War and Killing as Structures of Human Spirit

Sonderling

2018

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This article uncovers the function of war and killing as the primary and primordial formative structure of human spirituality and religious experience. Tracing the representations of war in texts of philosophers and social thinkers from ancient Greece to the present, reveals a tradition of thought that considers war as the defining characteristic of humanity and as the foundation for constructing human and divine identities. While war is a social and collective activity, at its core are the actions of fighting and killing that are forms of interpersonal engagement. It is this interpersonal engagement that many thinkers imagine as being the source of human consciousness, identity and meaning; as Heraclitus put it: war creates both men and gods, making mortals immortal and immortals mortal.

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“…Their practical essence is constituted by action, interaction, connection and exchange, in a word: transaction. The communicational relationship is transactional (Sonderling, 1995;Sonderling, 1996;Sonderling, 2012). Some authors consider, unilaterally, that a relationship is defined either as action, or as interaction, or as exchange.…”

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Reengineering some Uncertainties about Communicational Relationships

Vlăduțescu

2014

ILSHS

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The impulse to start the current research is represented by the ascertainment that in the universe of communication there is a persistence of uncertainties regarding the place and the functions of communicational relationship in the processes of communication. This study takes into account the fact that in the nuclear center of communication there is a communicational relationship. The investigation focuses on revealing the conceptual articulations for understanding the idea of communicational relationship. We emphasize the fact that, on the first level, communication is a voluntary social involvement, an intentional existential manifestation. The so-called involuntary aspects of communication are moments of loss of control on generating meanings. There cannot be communication without a will for communication. The meanings are the first level of human will and desire for communication. The second level is the message. Communication itself appears as an integrative third level of human will for communication. We help the emergence to be seen and delineate the criteria for the comprehension of communicational relationships: existential manifestation, the classes of communicators (actors, agents, actants, interactants, transactants), transactivity (transactional criterion), and repetition (iteration). The conclusion is that the communicational relationship is an interpersonal-iterative, transactional and life-existential meaningful manifestation.

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Eternal peace of the graveyard: The language of peace discourse and the construction of the global humanitarian concentration camp

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism

Peace as a Minor, Grounded Utopia: On Prefigurative and Testimonial Pacifism

I Kill, Therefore I Am: War and Killing as Structures of Human Spirit

Reengineering some Uncertainties about Communicational Relationships

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