Christopher Coker

Humane Warfare (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This highly controversial and cutting-edge book asks whether the attempts to make war 'virtual' or 'virtuous' can succeed and whether the West is deluding itself (not its enemies) in thinking that war can ever be made more humane.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134521333
• Artikelnr.: 42635911

Autorenporträt

Christopher Coker

Inhaltsangabe

1. HUMANISING WAR: Surfing the Zeitgeist
Irony and War
Humanising Modernity
Humanising War 2. WAR AND THE DENUNCIATION OF CRUELTY: The American Century and the will to power
Into the Slaughterhouse
Judith Shklar and cruelty 3. THE REDUNDANCY OF COURAGE: Machiavelli and the virtuous state
Hegel and war as a vocation
Nietzsche and the masses as a military caste
The end of the virtuous state
The Risk Society
Risk Aversive War
Stress
Free War 4. WAR WITHOUT HATRED: Why no enemies?
Post Materialist War
Uncivil Society
The Feminisation of Society
Non
lethal warfare 5. THE HUMANE WARRIOR: Counter Culture
Post Military Society
Post Tradition Military
The Feminisation of the Military 6. ZONING THE PLANET: Keeping the peace
An Insecure World
The Humanitarian military ethos
Humanitarian imperialism?
Humanitarian War and the loss of metaphysics 7. HUMANE WAR AND THE MORAL IMAGINATION: Lin Yutang and humanised thinking
Richard Rorty and the end of metaphysics
History as a metaphysical principle
War and sacrifice in an ironic world 8. CONCLUSION: Humanism and War
Humanity and War
Humanitarian Wars