Against the backdrop of the British-American law-making and
war-making of the first decade of the millennium, Fighting Monsters
considers: how the way we think about law affects the way we make
war and how the way we think about war affects the way we make law.
The discussion is founded upon four of the martial phenomena that
unsettle our complacent and flabby understandings of what law is to
a liberal democracy: aggressive or 'pre-emptive' war, targeted
killings, torture, and arbitrary detention. The book argues, first,
that force is a quintessential - albeit ambivalent - element of any
realistic, serviceable, and intellectually coherent concept of law.
Second, reappraising the classic question at the intersection of
martial doctrine and political philosophy in its contemporary
context, the book asserts that we need not, in fighting monsters,
become monstrous ourselves; that fighting partisans does not entail
our own partisanship; and that we can indeed govern without
dirtying our hands. Seeking to ground a total, essentialist, and
practical theory of legality's sordid relationship with brutality,
this broad, coherent, and original book encompasses: language and
image * war and crime * liberty, security, and rationality * amity,
enmity, and identity * sex, terror, and perversion * temporality,
spirituality, and sublimity * economy and hegemony * parliaments,
the press, and the public man.
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