Tag: Anti

Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left


Free Download Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left (Studies in Antisemitism) by Jean Améry, edited by Marlene Gallner, translated by Lars Fischer
English | January 4, 2022 | ISBN: 0253058759, 0253058767 | True EPUB | 124 pages | 0.9 MB
In April 1945, Jean Améry was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the Holocaust were made famous by his book At the Mind’s Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz and Its Realities.

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Learning to Stop Mindfulness Meditation as Anti-violence Pedagogy


Free Download Learning to Stop: Mindfulness Meditation as Anti-violence Pedagogy by Remy Y.S. Low
English | PDF | 2023 | 125 Pages | ISBN : 3031287215 | 2.8 MB
This book is a philosophical and historical study that explores how meditative practices for cultivating mindfulness can be regarded as a unique form of education against violence-one that emphasizes stopping and contemplation as a necessary precursor to action. It brings together the idiosyncratic but insightful musings on violence by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek with recent research on mindfulness and violence as a lens. Using this lens, it looks at two exemplary educators and how they taught mindfulness meditation as a way of resisting the types of violence they and their students faced: the Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh amidst the brutality of the Second Indochina War (1955-1975), and the African-American studies professor and cultural critic bell hooks in the face of systemic oppression in the United States of the 1980s.

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The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism


Free Download Moritz Ege, "The Cultural Politics of Anti-Elitism"
English | ISBN: 0367692600 | 2023 | 356 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour, and spatial arrangements.

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