Ethical Subject of Security - Geopolitical Reason and the Threat Against Europe

Informationen zum Autor J. Peter Burgess is Research Professor at PRIO, the Peace Research Institute Oslo, where he leads the Security Programme and edits the interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal Security Dialogue , and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. Klappentext The field of critical security studies has revolutionized scholarship on security practice. Guided by securitization theory! this field has focused largely on the objective side of the security practice. This book questions the subject-position from which 'securitization' and other security practices takes place. Zusammenfassung While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which ‘securitization’ and other security practices take place. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Security as Ethos and Episteme Part 1: Theory of the Ethical Subject 1. Nietzsche, or Value and the Subject of Security 2. Foucault, or Genealogy of the Ethical Subject 3. Lacan, or the Ethical Subject of the Real 4. Butler, or the Precarious Subject Part 2: Holding Together 5. Identity, Community and Security 6. Insecurity of the European Community of Values 7. Psychoanalysis of the National Thing 8. Security Clture and the New Ethos of Risk 9. Intolerable Insecurity Part 3: Geopolitical Rationalities of Europe 10. The Modernity of a Cosmopolitan Europe 11. The New Nomos of Europe 12. A Federalist Europe between Economic and Cultural Value 13. Justice in Political, Legal and Moral Community 14. War in the Name of Europe and the Legitimacy of Collective Violence. Conclusion: The Many Faces of European Security

Produktdetails

• Autoren: J. Peter Burgess, Burgess J. Peter
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 08.02.2011
• EAN: 9780415499828
• ISBN: 978-0-415-49982-8
• Seiten: 248
• Serie: PRIO New Security Studies
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Warfare & defence, Political science & theory, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Political science and theory, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Armed Conflict