War and Social Theory - World, Value and Identity

Informationen zum Autor NEAL CURTIS is Lecturer in Critical Theory and International Communication Studies at Nottingham University, UK. He is the author of Against Autonomy: Lyotard, Judgement and Action. Klappentext The persistence of war as a feature of modern life is examined through issues of identity and difference, that is, the construction of 'self' and 'other' as individual or community. Key texts relating specifically to identity and war are addressed, including those by Nietzsche, Heiddeger, Marcuse, Freud, Lacan, Honneth, Bataille, Simmel, Elshtain, Ruddick, Schmitt, Delanda, Hardt and Negri, Baudrillard, Virilio, Beck and Joas. Its theoretical approach sets this study apart from the traditional political science and IR approaches to the subject and makes a significant contribution within this area of social theory, cultural studies and communication studies. Zusammenfassung Its theoretical approach sets this study apart from the traditional political science and IR approaches to the subject and makes a significant contribution within this area of social theory, cultural studies and communication studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Power and Polemos Life and Death Master and Slave Community and Sacrifice Injuring and Mourning Friend and Enemy Media and Machine Economy and Empire Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: N Curtis, N. Curtis, Neal Curtis
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2005
• EAN: 9781403933713
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-3371-3
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 225 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Soziologie, B, Sociology, Ethics, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Social Theory, Warfare & defence, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Sociology, general, Social Philosophy, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Social sciences—Philosophy, Politics and war, Military and Defence Studies, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection