The Biopolitics of the War on Terror : Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies Hardback
by Julian Reid
Part of the Reappraising the Political series
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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 learning to question the limits of existing understandings of what constitutes human life and its political potentialities.
The pursuit of such a line of questioning is integral to the biopolitical analysis developed in this book. -- .
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- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:31/12/2006
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- ISBN:9780719074059
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:31/12/2006
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- ISBN:9780719074059
