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Humanity and the enemy : how ethics can rid politics of violence /

Humanity and the Enemy attempts to show the limits and problems of the current and dominant idea of politics based on the friend-and-enemy logic, typical of the thought of Carl Schmitt. It proposes an alternative view in which politics and ethics are inextricably intertwined. This view entails the o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gullì, Bruno, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Political ethics.
Political culture > Moral and ethical aspects.
Political violence.
LAW > Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > General.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ethics and the Law: Reconsidering the Friend-and-Enemy Logic
  • Remark: Machiavelli and the Desire for Freedom
  • 2. The Ethical Obligation to Disobey and Resist
  • 3. Deactivate Violence: Human Insecurity, the Enemy, and the Other
  • 4. Labor, Poverty, and Migration: Sovereign Terror and the War against Humanity
  • 5. Deactivate Terror and the Enemy Logic
  • Conclusion
  • Humanity without the Enemy.