Title: Antagonistics : [capital and power in an age of war] /
Authors: Balakrishnan, Gopal.
Publisher: Verso,
Year: 2009
Subjects: War Economic aspects; Militarism Economic aspects.; Capitalism.; Politics and war.
Abstract: "Antagonistics addresses core political and theoretical questions: how should we conceive of the relationship between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, or American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the major issues of the new international order are set within a larger framework, tracing the intertwined evolution of the modern state system and the capitalist mode of production, from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Occupation of Iraq. Gopal Balakrishnan interrogates key political perspectives ... for their insights on state power and civil society, democracy, and class. Antagonistics combines intellectual history, political philosophy, and historical sociology to produce a highly distinctive portrait of an age of capital and war"--P. [4] of cover.
Contents: Arms and accumulation -- Virgilian visions -- Algorithms of war -- Battleground of the spectacle -- The role of force in history -- The national imagination -- The oracle of post-democracy -- Two on the marble cliffs -- Overcoming emancipation -- The age of identity -- The politics of piety -- From Florence to Moscow -- Machiavelli and the reawakening of history.