The Biopolitics of the War on Terror - Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Reappraising the Political
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Julian Reid
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	160
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-7405-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	0-7190-7405-3
Barcode:	9780719074059

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