Evans / Reid Resilient Life

The Art of Living Dangerously
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8283-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just aphilosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our ownindividual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue,fundamental to the new doctrine of 'resilience' that isbecoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21stCentury. No longer should we think in terms of evading thepossibility of traumatic experiences. Catastrophic events, we aretold, are not just inevitable but learning experiences from whichwe have to grow and prosper, collectively and individually.Vulnerability to threat, injury and loss has to be accepted as areality of human existence.
In this original and compelling text, Brad Evans and Julian Reidexplore the political and philosophical stakes of the resilienceturn in security and governmental thinking. Resilience, they argue,is a neo-liberal deceit that works by disempowering endangeredpopulations of autonomous agency. Its consequences represent aprofound assault on the human subject whose meaning and solepurpose is reduced to survivability. Not only does this reveal thenihilistic qualities of a liberal project that is coming to termswith its political demise. All life now enters into lasting crisesthat are catastrophic unto the end.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Brad

Reid, Julian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements ix
1 Anthropocene 1
2 Insecure by Design 38
3 The Poverty of Vulnerability 68
4 Living Dangerously 91
5 Atmos 120
6 Endgames 141
7 The Art of Politics 167
Notes 204
Select Bibliography 223
Index 231

Über Autor(innen)

Brad Evans is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Bristol
Julian Reid is Professor of International Relations at the University
of Lapland, Finland