Theorizing war : from Hobbes to Badiou /
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| Author / Creator: | Mansfield, Nick. |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. |
| Description: | viii, 174 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7481010 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: War and Its Other
- Part I. Posing the Problem
- Hobbes: War redeemed by sovereignty
- Kant: Peace through war
- Clausewitz: War as the activation of the social
- Part II. The War/Other Complex
- Freud: War and ambivalence
- Bataille: War, consumption and religion
- Deleuze and Guattari: Owning the war-machine
- Under the black light: Derrida, Levinas, Schmitt and the aporia of war
- Part III. The Problem of Difference
- The collapse of difference: Insisting on Clausewitz
- Global war
- Recovering difference
- Conclusion: War and Human Rights
- Bibliography
- Index
