After "Rwanda" [electronic resource] : In Search of a New Ethics

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martinon, Jean-Paul.

Series:

Studies in intercultural philosophy After "Rwanda"

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Rwanda.

Humanity.

Political ethics.

Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Atrocities.

Humanity--Rwanda.

Genocide.

Local Subjects:

Genocide--Rwanda.

Humanity.

Political ethics.

Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Atrocities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Is writing about peace after the Rwandan Genocide self-defeating? Whether it is the intensity of the massacres, the popularity of the genocide, or the imaginary forms of cruelty, however one looks at it, everything in the Rwandan Genocide appears to defy once again the possibility of thinking peace anew. In order to address this problem, this book investigates the work of specific French and Rwandese philosophers in order to renew our understanding of peace today. Through this path-breaking investigation, peace no longer stands for an ideal in the future, but becomes a structure of inter-subje

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CHAPTER 1: MATERNITY - UBUNTU; 1. Here I am; 2. Without God; 3. Maternity; 4. Ubuntu; 5. Filiality; 6. A Logical Absurdity; CHAPTER 2: MATRIX - AKANTU; 1. Murders; 2. Vanquished; 3. The Matrix; 4. Elect-Risk; 5. The Blow Does Not Come; 6. Neither Justice Nor Law; CHAPTER 3: MATERIAL - AHANTU; 1. Eyes; 2. Face; 3. Body; 4. Scene; 5. Horizon; 6. Palaver; CHAPTER 4: MATURITY - AHANTU; 1. God; 2. Embodiment; 3. Otherwise; 4. Present; 5. Sacyega & Ngoma; 6. History; CHAPTER 5: MATRIMONY - UBUMUNTU; 1. Side-by-side; 2. To-let-be

3. Face-to-face4. Side-by-Side-Face-to-Face; 5. Matrimony; 6. Kubana; CHAPTER 6: MATTER - UKUNTU; 1. Writing, Reading; 2. What Comes? Here I am; 3. What is? Thou Shall Not Kill; 4. Kirazira; 5. A Hermeneutic Effort; 6. Necessity; CHAPTER 7: MATERIEL - IKINTU; 1. Stop; 2. By the Crater; 3. With-Out Distance; 4. Vigilance; 5. Work Procreation; 6. At War, in Love; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.