|aTheorizing war|h[electronic resource] :|bfrom Hobbes to Badiou /|cNick Mansfield.
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|aBasingstoke [England] ;|aNew York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2008.
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|aviii, 174 p. ;|c23 cm.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 169-171) and index.
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|aWar and its other -- Posing the problem -- The war/other complex -- The problem of difference-- Conclusion : war and human rights.
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|aWe all think we know what war is, yet it has always been explained in relation to something else: sovereign authority, civil society, peace, friendship, love. Traditionally, war has been perceived as either theopposite of these values, or as their instrument. Yet, in our time, itseems to be both of these things at once: social values, like human rights, are both what justifies war, and what we need to protect from war. In this book, Nick Mansfield studies this paradox through areading of canonical thinkers on war like Hobbes and Clausewitz, and also of other thinkers (from Freud and Bataille to Deleuze and Guattari,Levinas and Derrida) who have attempted to deal with our complex and contradictory relationship to war. He also investigates the way that themost influential recent thinkers (from Virilio and Baudrillard to Mbembe, Badiou and Zizek) have theorized war.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2009.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Apr. 24, 2009).|nAccess may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.