Logics of war : the use of force and the problem of mediation / Therese Feiler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feiler, Therese 1982- author. .

Series:

T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics.

T&T Clark Enquiries in Theological Ethics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War--Religious aspects.

War.

War--Moral and ethical aspects.

Just war doctrine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Place of Publication:

London England : T and T Clark, 2019.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

"The modern ethics of war is a field of disparate, competing voices based on often unexplored theological and metaphysical assumptions. Therese Feiler approaches them from the borderline area between systematics, philosophical theology and religious studies. With reference to G. W. F. Hegel's and like-minded thinkers' 'theo-logic' that negotiates Christ's mediation and immanent dialectics, Feiler identifies the logic and problem of mediation as the core concern of political ethics. Feiler unites five representative authors from now disparate strands of contemporary just war ethics, testing whether they offer a meaningful possibility of mediation and subsequent reconciliation: a sovereign realist and a cosmopolitan idealist; a rationalist individualist, an idealist Christian ethicist, and finally, an evangelical theologian. Opening the just war debate for comparative critical engagement, Feiler creates a fascinating study that locates a "dynamic point" at which faithful, free political action can be wrestled from irony, tragedy, and melancholic inertia in the face of totalitarian suffocation."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. A Modern Investiture: National Sovereignty versus International Law

Chapter 1. Sovereign Demonology: The State of Exception(alism)

Chapter 2. Challenge or Twin? The Global Rule of Law Part II. Heresies: Liberal(-Marxist) and Christian Ethics of War

Chapter 3. Machiavelli for Everyone! Human Rights Reconsidered

Chapter 4. Christian Ethics: Paul Ramsey's Theo-Logics of War Haunted by Hegel and Nietzsche Part III. Theo-Logics of Mediation

Chapter 5. An Eschatological Fusion - Oliver O'Donovan's Evangelical Ethics of War

Chapter 6. Mediations: History, Grace and Combat

Conclusions

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780567678300

056767830X

9780567678317

0567678318

9780567678294

0567678296

OCLC:

1124599682