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The philosophy of war and exile : from the humanity of war to the inhumanity of peace / Nolen Gertz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gertz, Nolen, author.
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in ethics and public policy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War (Philosophy).
- Exile (Punishment).
- Physical Description:
- ix, 203 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- The Philosophy of War and Exile argues that our current paradigms for thinking about the ethics of war (just war theory) and the suffering of war (PTSD theory) judge war without properly understanding it. By continuing the investigations of J. Glenn Gray into the meaning of how war is experienced by combatants, we can find an alternative understanding of not only war, but of peace, culminating in a new theory of responsibility centered on embodiment and mortality, rather than praise and blame. This concept of responsibility allows us to ask questions about torture, unmanned warfare, and the treatment of veterans, as well as ask what it means for noncombatants to experience as home what combatants experience as exile. Book jacket.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version
- ISBN:
- 9781137351210
- 1137351217
- OCLC:
- 894127070
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