Beyond security, ethics and violence : war against the other /

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Author / Creator:Burke, Anthony, 1966-
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
Description:xi, 284 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6241069
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ISBN:0415384648 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780415384643 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0415410886 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780415410885 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-273) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: security, freedom and death
  • Part I. Security
  • 1. Aporias of security: from the Leviathan to the security state
  • 2. Poetry outside security: the jagged edges of Southeast Asia
  • 3. Security after security: Israel, Palestine and the wall
  • Part II. Ethics
  • 4. Strangers without strangeness: power and difference between Australia and Indonesia
  • 5. The perverse perseverance of sovereignty
  • 6. Just war or ethical peace? Morality and strategic violence after 9/11
  • Part III. Violence
  • 7. Violence and reason on the shoals of Vietnam
  • 8. Iraq: strategy's burnt offering
  • 9. Freedom's freedom: American enlightenment and permanent war
  • Notes
  • Index