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THE BIOPOLITICS OF THE WAR ON TERROR
LIFE STRUGGLES, LIBERAL MODERNITY AND THE DEFENCE OF LOGISTICAL SOCIETIES |
| By: |
Julian Reid |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0719074053 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780719074059 |
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| Publisher: |
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 2006 |
| Series: |
Reappraising the Political |
| Pages: |
160 |
| Description: |
This book provides an utterly original analysis of the social and political origins of the war on terror in liberal regimes of disciplinary and biopolitical forms of power. -- . |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Manchester University Press |
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