TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reid,Julian
TI  - The biopolitics of the war on terror: Life struggles, liberal modernity and the defence of logistical societies
T2  - Reappraising the Political S
SN  - 9781847793379
AV  - HV6432 .B567 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Biopolitics
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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