Philosophy against empire
By: edited by Tony Smith and Harry van der Linden ; production editor, Jeffrey Paris
Series: Radical philosophy today -- v. 4.
Publisher: Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Charlottesville, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781889680477
Subjects: Philosophy; Political science; Economics; Human Rights; Radicalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. War and Empire : Can there be a just war? / Karsten J. Struhl; title: No just war for the empire / Ann Ferguson; title: Leave no oil reserves behind, including Iraq's : the geopolitics of American imperialism / Edmund F. Byrne; title: Pt. 2. Cross-border flows in the global economy : Globalization, neoliberalism, and the "precarious classes" : the next phase / David R. Cormier and Harry Targ; title: From alien to guest : a philosophical scrutiny of the Bush administration's "guest worker" initiative / Jo-Ann Pilardi; title: Victims or agents? Female cross-border migrants and anti-trafficking discourse / Lucinda Joy Peach; title: Pt. 3. Biopolitics and the " Global war on terrorism" : The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence : biopolitics and the state of exception / Devin Zane Shaw; title: Politics and the void : Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Z̆iz̆ek on the state of emergency / Tzuchien Tho; title: The imperial bestiary of the U.S. : alien, enemy combatant, terrorist / Eduardo Mendieta; title: Pt. 4. Subjectivity and resistance : Can the alienated make a socialist revolution? Reflections about the prospects for socialism / Richard Schmitt; title: Black authenticity/inauthenticity and American empire / Richard A. Jones; title: Human rights and the politics of neo-colonial intervention / Richard T. Peterson; title: Marxist critique and philosolphical hermeneutics : outlines of a hermeneutical-historical materialism / Peter Amato; title: Pt. 5. Book discussion : Carol Gould's Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights / William McBride; title: Is "Globalizing democracy" possible? / Omar Dahbour; title: Are there human rights? / Kory P. Schaff; title: Stakeholders and terrorists : on Carol Gould's Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights / David Schweickart; title: A reply to my critics / Carol C. Gould.