The biopolitics of the war on terror Life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies.

By:

Reid, Julian [Author]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781847793379

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Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

HV6432 .B567 2006

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Subject: This is a book which completely overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. As the author shows, this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life against an enemy defined simply by a contradictory will for the destruction of human life as commonly supposed by its liberal advocates. It is a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are being put to the test if not rejected outright. Seeking a way out of this conflict must in turn mean le.

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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	HV6432 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn818847275

Includes bibliographies and index.

9780719074059; 9780719074059; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 War and liberal modernity: a biopolitical critique; 2 Logistical life: war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societies; 3 Nomadic life: war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperium; 4 Defiant life: the seductions of Terror amid the tyranny of the human; 5 Circulatory life: 9/11 as architectural catastrophe and the hypermodernity of Terror; 6 Biopolitical life: the 'war against war' of the multitude; References; Index.

This is a book which completely overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. As the author shows, this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life against an enemy defined simply by a contradictory will for the destruction of human life as commonly supposed by its liberal advocates. It is a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are being put to the test if not rejected outright. Seeking a way out of this conflict must in turn mean le.

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