Targets of opportunity : on the militarization of thinking / Samuel Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Samuel, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

War (Philosophy).

Psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Physical Description:

x, 152 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.

Summary:

The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming to destroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus's killing of the suitors; the second concerns Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form; the third and fourth treat Freud's ocirc; Thoughts for the Times on War and Deathouml; and ocirc; The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion.ouml; Weber then traces the emergence of an alternative to targeting, first within military and strategic thinking itself (ocirc; Network Centered Warfareouml; ), and then in Walter Benjamin's readings of ocirc; Capitalism as Religionouml; and ocirc; Two Poems of Friedrich Hdivide; lderlin.ouml;

Contents:

"A rather singular strike"

"The principle of representation" : Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and political form

Wartime : Freud's "Timely thoughts on war and death"

Doing away with Freud's Man Moses

Networks, netwar, and narratives

The net and the carpets.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-146) and index.

ISBN:

0823224759

0823224767

OCLC:

57694788