After "Rwanda" : In Search of a New Ethics

• Author: Martinon, Jean-Paul.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in intercultural philosophy After "Rwanda"
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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

Table of 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