Humane warfare
Christopher Coker
Bok · 2001
| Utgitt | London : Routledge , 2001
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| Omfang | 170s.
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| Opplysninger | Content: 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
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| ISBN | 0-415-25575-9
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