The Philosophy of War and Exile: From the Humanity of War to the Inhumanity of Peace

ISBN-13: 9781137351210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 212 str.

Nolen Gertz; Thom Brooks

Opis

The Philosophy of War and Exile argues that our current paradigms for thinking about the ethics of war - just war theory - and the suffering of war - PTSD theory - judge war without a proper understanding of war. By continuing the investigations of J. Glenn Gray into the meaning of how war is experienced by combatants we can find an alternative understanding of not only war, but of peace, culminating in a new theory of responsibility centered around embodiment and mortality rather than praise and blame. This conception of responsibility will in turn allow us to not only ask new questions about torture, unmanned warfare, and the treatment of veterans, but also to ask new questions about what it means for noncombatants to experience as home what combatants experience as exile.

Recenzje

"I found Gertz's book refreshing and eye-opening. His book offers promise for changing the interpretive paradigm of military ethics instruction and analysis, and for motivating caregivers to reassess their boilerplate civilian judgments of troubled soldiers." (Matthew Hallgarth, Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 15 (2), August, 2016)

Spis treści

Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: BECOMING RESPONSIBLE 1. The Lust for War vs. The Lust for Judgment 2. A World Without Responsibility PART II: BEING IN EXILE, BEING AS EXILE 3. What's Wrong with (How We Think About) Torture? 4. Drone Operators, Cyber Warriors, and Prosthetic Gods 5. Of the Many Who Returned and Yet Were Dead Conclusion: Our Veterans, Ourselves Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

Nolen Gertz is an Instructor in Philosophy at Delta College, USA. He specializes in applied ethics, political philosophy, and existential phenomenology.