Pacifism's precarity /
In this dissertation I do not aim to resolve the problem of pacifism, but examine the concept of pacifism by exploring the generative praxis inherent in it. In other words, I will consider pacifism neither as passive, nor moral, nor even neutral. I am interested in pacifism only insofar as it develo...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Walker, Vern Edward. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Pacifism's precarity / |c by Vern Edward Walker. |
| 260 | |c 2008. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 323 leaves ; |c 29 cm. | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent. | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |2 rdamedia. | ||
| 338 | |a volume |2 rdacarrier. | ||
| 502 | |a Thesis (Ph. D.)--Binghamton University, State University of New York, 2008. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (leaves 317-323) | ||
| 520 | |a In this dissertation I do not aim to resolve the problem of pacifism, but examine the concept of pacifism by exploring the generative praxis inherent in it. In other words, I will consider pacifism neither as passive, nor moral, nor even neutral. I am interested in pacifism only insofar as it develops productive practices that function because they paradoxically affirm their own precariousness. The historical dimension of this dissertation concentrates primarily on the American pacifist movement of the Catholic Worker, engendered by Dorothy Day in New York City, 1933. However, to create this peculiar trajectory of thought, I connect the Catholic Worker Movement to the literature of the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann and to the work of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Approaching pacifism through the comparative studies of activism, literature, and philosophy affords the possibility to rethink pacifist practices as dynamically problematic, i.e. struggling to think and act outside the boundaries of rational, lawful, common sense--From the author's abstract. | ||
| 533 | |a Photocopy. |b Ann Arbor, MI : |c UMI, |d c2008. |e 29 cm. | ||
| 590 | |a Dorothy Day-Catholic Worker Collection. | ||
| 599 | |a CRRA. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Day, Dorothy, |d 1897-1980. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Bachmann, Ingeborg, |d 1926-1973. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Deleuze, Gilles, |d 1925-1995. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Pacifism. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Pacifism in literature. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Comparative literature |x Themes, motives. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Catholic Worker Movement. | |
| 910 | |a mds | ||