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Between war and politics : international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt / Patricia Owens.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Owens, Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
- Arendt, Hannah.
- Politics and war.
- International relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this major new assessment of Hannah Arendt's writings on international relations, Patricia Owens provides a compelling case for Arendt's continued relevance to debates about suicide bombing; genocide; the ethics of war; civilian casualties; and the dangers of lies and hypocrisy in wartime.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Violence and power, politics and war
- Who is revealed in war? : history, war, and storytelling
- The boomerang effect : on the imperial origins of total war
- 'How dangerous it can be to be innocent' : war and the law
- Rage against hypocrisy : on liberal wars for human rights
- Beyond Strauss, lies and the war in Iraq : a critique of neoconservativism
- The humanitarian condition? : on war and making a global public.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-215) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-956604-6
- 0-19-171505-0
- 1-282-56377-7
- 9786612563775
- 0-19-155954-7
- OCLC:
- 922970030
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