Humanity and the Enemy [electronic resource] : How Ethics Can Rid Politics of Violence /
Gullì, B.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.
Ethics.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Political science.
Social sciences.
Ethics.
Moral Philosophy.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Political Science.
Social Sciences, general.