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9780719074059

The Biopolitics of the War on Terror Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies

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    9780719074059

  • ISBN10:

    0719074053

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-06-15
  • Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Julian Reid is Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgementsp. ix
War and liberal modernity: a biopolitical critiquep. 1
Logistical life: war, discipline, and the martial origins of liberal societiesp. 17
Nomadic life: war, sovereignty, and resistance to the biopolitical imperiump. 40
Defiant life: the seductions of Terror amid the tyranny of the humanp. 62
Circulatory life: 9/11 as architectural catastrophe, and the hypermodernity of Terrorp. 82
Biopolitical life: the 'war against war' of the multitudep. 102
Epiloguep. 124
Referencesp. 130
Indexp. 141
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