{"product_id":"transformative-pacifism-andrew-fiala-9781350151338","title":"Transformative Pacifism: Critical Theory and Practice","description":"Defending pacifism against the charge that it is na?ely 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew Fiala\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1350151335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781350151338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Continnuum-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d","brand":"Andrew Fiala","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43987408683263,"sku":"9781350151338","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7be33888-8ba3-4a25-be66-8ead424539db.jpg?v=1683288811","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/transformative-pacifism-andrew-fiala-9781350151338","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}