Humanity and the Enemy: How Ethics Can Rid Politics of Violence

ISBN-13: 9781137456472 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 179 str.

Bruno Gulli

Opis

The book questions the concept of "the enemy," beginning with Carl Schmitt's famous notion that politics is the relationship of friend and enemy and that humanity is not a political concept. This book deconstructs this notion and views humanity at the center of a type of politics based on ethics.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Ethics and the Law: Reconsidering the Friend-and-Enemy Logic Remark: Machiavelli and the Desire for Freedom 2. The Ethical Obligation to Disobey and Resist 3. Deactivate Violence: Human Insecurity, the Enemy, and the Other 4. Labor, Poverty, and Migration: Sovereign Terror and the War against Humanity 5. Deactivate Terror and the Enemy Logic Conclusion – Humanity without the Enemy

O autorze

Bruno Gulli is Assistant Professor at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, USA.