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:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentionalstructure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming todestroy 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; thethird and fourth treat Freud’s “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” and“The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion.” Weber then traces the emergenceof an alternative to targeting, first within military and strategic thinking itself(“Network Centered Warfare”), and then in Walter Benjamin’s readings of“Capitalism as Religion” and “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin.”

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612698651

9780823238323

0823238326

9780823247301

0823247309

9780823235650

0823235653

9781282698659

1282698656

9780823224777

0823224775

OCLC:

607611319