|
Showing 1 - 4 of
4 matches in All Departments
Does the lethal use of drones pose any new or difficult moral
problems? Or is the controversy over these weapons merely a
distraction from deeper questions regarding the justice of war and
the United States' bellicose foreign policy? Opposing Perspectives
on the Drone Debate pulls no punches in answering these questions
as five scholars square off in a lively debate over the ethics of
drones and their contentious use in a point-counterpoint debate.
The contributing authors are some of the foremost thinkers in
international affairs today, spanning the disciplines of
philosophy, sociology, political science, and law. Topics debated
range from the US's contested policy of so-called "targeted
killing" in Pakistan's tribal regions to fears over the damaging
effects such weaponry has on our democratic institutions to the
more abstract moral questions raised by killing via remote control
such as the duty to capture over kill.
This study analyzes the pervasive rhetoric of victimhood in
European culture since 1968. In a radically fragmented public
sphere, individuals perceive themselves as dissociated from all
others, while at the same time they feel similar to everyone else.
Where genuine solidarity and communality is attenuated, people
present themselves as victims to garner media attention, create
fragile social bonds, or escape supposed marginalization and
oppression. Fatima Naqvi commences with interpretations of Sigmund
Freud, Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, arguing that contemporary
discourse continues a trajectory mapped in the early 20th
century--in the shadow of Nazism. In a series of paradigmatic
readings of Rene Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm
Kiefer, Christoph Ransmayr, Friederike Mayrocker, Michel
Houellebecq, Giorgio Agamben, and Elfriede Jelinek, she traces the
on-going fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim
status in the West. She looks at the way in which such cultural
anxiety expresses itself; at how victim rhetoric calls itself into
question; and, finally, at how it perpetuates itself in the moment
that it becomes philosophically ungrounded.
Does the lethal use of drones pose any new or difficult moral
problems? Or is the controversy over these weapons merely a
distraction from deeper questions regarding the justice of war and
the United States' bellicose foreign policy? Opposing Perspectives
on the Drone Debate pulls no punches in answering these questions
as five scholars square off in a lively debate over the ethics of
drones and their contentious use in a point-counterpoint debate.
The contributing authors are some of the foremost thinkers in
international affairs today, spanning the disciplines of
philosophy, sociology, political science, and law. Topics debated
range from the US's contested policy of so-called "targeted
killing" in Pakistan's tribal regions to fears over the damaging
effects such weaponry has on our democratic institutions to the
more abstract moral questions raised by killing via remote control
such as the duty to capture over kill.
In a series of paradigmatic readings of Rene Girard, Peter
Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq,
Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current
fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R205
R168
Discovery Miles 1 680
Southpaw
Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker, …
DVD
R96
R23
Discovery Miles 230
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R205
R168
Discovery Miles 1 680
|