
On the Justice and Justification of Just War
How Does Life Dwell in the State?
Maren Lytje(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 4. December 2018
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-3-631-74525-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book sets out to explore the questions how democracies decide which lives should be protected, how these lives are defended, and how they are distinguished from the lives that can be lost without mourning. The author analyzes through a range of political and philosophical issues the contemporary just war literature. She emphasizes the problem of human rights, the biopolitics of democratic welfare regimes, and the relationship between the aesthetic value of the visual world and the discursive value of democratic politics. In doing so, the book questions standard conventions about the right to kill in warfare, and challenges some of our basic assumptions about the justice of democratic welfare regimes.
More details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
328 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-74525-0 (9783631745250)
DOI
10.3726/b13272
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Maren Lytje is Assistant Professor at the University College of Northern Jutland, and external lecturer at Aalborg University. She holds a Ph.D. in History, and specializes in theory of history, twentieth century European history of ideas and political philosophy.
Content
Just war - The War on Terror - Justification - Biopolitics - Sovereignty - Justice - Foucault - Agamben - Political myth - Democracy - Ethics - Authority - Plato - Hobbes - Cassirer - Theory of history - Political philosophy - Memory - Trauma -Psychoanalysis - Freud - Deconstruction - Ideology