Politics Most Unusual Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the `War on Terror'

by Newman, Saul; Levine, Michael; Cox, Damian

• ISBN13: 9780230535398
• ISBN10: 0230535399
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

A critical analysis of a new paradigm of politics that has started to come into focus in democratic societies since September 11, one that embodies greater violence and authoritariansim.

Author Biography

DAMIAN COX is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bond University, Australia. His publications include Integrity and the Fragile Self (2003, co-authored); and articles in metaphysics, epistemology, value theory, environmental ethics, philosophical psychology, and moral theory.

MICHAEL LEVINE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. Recent publications include Integrity and the Fragile Self (2003, co-authored); Racism in Mind (2003, co-edited), The Analytic Freud (editor); and articles on moral psychology, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy and architecture.

SAUL NEWMAN is Reader in Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His research is in continental political theory, radical politics, and the politics of violence, terrorism and security. He is the author of From Bakunin to Lacan (2001); Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought (2005) Unstable Universalities (2007), as well as numerous journal articles.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
The Politics of Security	p. 1
Religion, Prejudice, Violence and Politics	p. 24
Lying in the War on Terrorism	p. 43
Sovereignty, Violence and the State of Exception	p. 68
American Empire and its Discontents	p. 90
The Lesser of Two Terrors: Ethical Questions	p. 116
On Ways Forward	p. 143
Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 188
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