Learning to Stop: Mindfulness Meditation as Anti-Violence Pedagogy

By Remy Y.S. Low

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 Zizek 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031287215
• ISBN13: 9783031287213
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 117 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"