Reconsidering the Concept of Peace: From a Philosophical Point of View

Description:
This lecture will investigate a way to reconsider the concept of peace from a philosophical point of view. At first, an open way of passing on memories of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima and a link between the memory transmission and the pursuit of peace will be investigated. Then, taking the new type of war in the present world into consideration, some philosophical theory of peace will be revisited. In this revisitation, the concept of hospitality will be analyzed as a basic concept for the pursuit of peace. Through such inquiry, this lecture aims to suggest that peace can be pursued in coexistence with others.

Objective:
This lecture aims to encourage participants to think about peace in connection to their coexistence with others.

Recommended Readings:
Immanuel Kant, Toward Perpetual Peace and Other Writings on Politics, Peace, and History, New Heaven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1969.
Jacques Derrida, Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999.






Name:KAKIGI Nobuyuki

Present Post and Title: Associate Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Hiroshima City University.

Final Education:Sophia University, Tokyo

Specialized Field: Contemporary Philosophy and Aesthetics

Recent Publications:
[Articles]
"Rethinking Peace from Hiroshima: From Memory Inheritance to Peace Lying between Selves and Others", Hiroshima Peace Research News Vol. 14 No. 3, Hiroshima Peace Institute, Hiroshima City University, March 2012.
"In Search of Language of History: From the Standpoint of Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of History", Annual Review of Dilthey Association in Japan Vol. 22, Dilthey Association in Japan, December 2011. [in Japanese]
[Books]
The Critical Situation of Culture in Recent Hiroshima and Legacy of Culture as Resistance (Editor and Co-author), Institute for Women Studies Hiroshima, July 2011. [in Japanese]
A Philosophy of Coexistence: To Live with Others, Institute for Women Studies Hiroshima, April 2010. [in Japanese]


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