Humanity and the Enemy - How Ethics Can Rid Politics of Violence

Informationen zum Autor Bruno Gulli is Assistant Professor at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, USA. Klappentext The book questions the concept of "the enemy!" beginning with Carl Schmitt's famous notion that politics is the relationship of friend and enemy and that humanity is not a political concept. This book deconstructs this notion and views humanity at the center of a type of politics based on ethics. Zusammenfassung The book questions the concept of "the enemy!" beginning with Carl Schmitt's famous notion that politics is the relationship of friend and enemy and that humanity is not a political concept. This book deconstructs this notion and views humanity at the center of a type of politics based on ethics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Ethics and the Law: Reconsidering the Friend-and-Enemy Logic Remark: Machiavelli and the Desire for Freedom 2. The Ethical Obligation to Disobey and Resist 3. Deactivate Violence: Human Insecurity, the Enemy, and the Other 4. Labor, Poverty, and Migration: Sovereign Terror and the War against Humanity 5. Deactivate Terror and the Enemy Logic Conclusion – Humanity without the Enemy

List of contents

Introduction 1. Ethics and the Law: Reconsidering the Friend-and-Enemy Logic Remark: Machiavelli and the Desire for Freedom 2. The Ethical Obligation to Disobey and Resist 3. Deactivate Violence: Human Insecurity, the Enemy, and the Other 4. Labor, Poverty, and Migration: Sovereign Terror and the War against Humanity 5. Deactivate Terror and the Enemy Logic Conclusion - Humanity without the Enemy

Product details

• Authors: B. Gulli, Bruno Gulli, B Gullì, B. Gullì
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2014
• EAN: 9781349498499
• ISBN: 978-1-349-49849-9
• No. of pages: 179
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Sociology, Society, Ethics, Society & social sciences, Political Science, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Social Sciences, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social Sciences, general, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Palgrave Political Science Collection