Humanity and the Enemy

How Ethics Can Rid Politics of Violence
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-49849-9
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 179 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2485 g

The book questions the concept of "the enemy," beginning with Carl Schmitt's famous notion that politics is the relationship of friend and enemy and that humanity is not a political concept. This book deconstructs this notion and views humanity at the center of a type of politics based on ethics.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gullì, B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Ethics and the Law: Reconsidering the Friend-and-Enemy Logic Remark: Machiavelli and the Desire for Freedom 2. The Ethical Obligation to Disobey and Resist 3. Deactivate Violence: Human Insecurity, the Enemy, and the Other 4. Labor, Poverty, and Migration: Sovereign Terror and the War against Humanity 5. Deactivate Terror and the Enemy Logic Conclusion – Humanity without the Enemy

Über Autor(innen)

Bruno Gulli is Assistant Professor at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, USA.