On the Justice and Justification of Just War: How Does Life Dwell in the State?

ISBN-13: 9783631745250 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 160 str.

Maren Lytje

Opis

This book addresses the concepts of sovereignty, justice and justification in relation to western warfare. It argues that ontological assumptions about human life underpin these concepts. This book focuses on these assumptions and shifts our attention away from the question of our right to kill and towards the question of the construction of life.

Spis treści

Just war - The War on Terror - Justification - Biopolitics - Sovereignty - Justice - Foucault - Agamben - Political myth - Democracy - Ethics - Authority - Plato - Hobbes - Cassirer - Theory of history - Political philosophy - Memory - Trauma -Psychoanalysis - Freud - Deconstruction - Ideology

O autorze

Maren Lytje is Assistant Professor at the University College of Northern Jutland, and external lecturer at Aalborg University. She holds a Ph.D. in History, and specializes in theory of history, twentieth century European history of ideas and political philosophy.