Visions of Peace
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This edited collection explores the diversity of past conceptualizations as well as the remarkable continuity in the desire for peace across global intellectual traditions. Each chapter offers a case study of a particular intellectual tradition and attempts to rehabilitate 'forgotten' conceptions of peace and reclaim its contemporary relevance. This book brings together wide-ranging material for students and specialists interested in international relations, peace studies, history, political theory, philosophy and religious studies.

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This edited collection explores the diversity of past conceptualizations as well as the remarkable continuity in the desire for peace across global intellectual traditions. Each chapter offers a case study of a particular intellectual tradition and attempts to rehabilitate 'forgotten' conceptions of peace and reclaim its contemporary relevance. This book brings together wide-ranging material for students and specialists interested in international relations, peace studies, history, political theory, philosophy and religious studies.
Autorenporträt
Takashi Shogimen is Associate Professor in History and Associate Dean (Research) for Humanities at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He has previously been Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Visiting Professor in History at the University of Helsinki. His research interests encompass medieval European political thought, comparative political theory and Japanese intellectual history. His publications include Ockham and Political Discourse in the Late Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Western Political Thought in Dialogue with Asia (co-edited with Cary J. Nederman, Lexington Books, 2009). Vicki A. Spencer is a Senior Lecturer in political theory in the Department of Politics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Her research interests encompass early modern European thought and contemporary political theory with a focus on issues relating to language, cultural identities, nationalism and multiculturalism. She is the co-editor (with Paul Corcoran) of Disclosures (Ashgate, 2000) and her most recent publication is Herder's Political Thought: A Study of Language, Culture and Community (University of Toronto Press, 2012). She is currently working on a project in contemporary theory on toleration, humility and recognition.