Learning to Stop: Mindfulness Meditation as Anti-Violence Pedagogy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783031287213)

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 Zizek 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
ISBN-10: 3031287215
ISBN-13: 9783031287213
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2023
Pages: 117
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.38d