Politics of Security

Zusatztext 'This is a challenging and important book.' - Thomas Dumm! Amherst College Informationen zum Autor Michael Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster. He has held visiting positions at The Johns Hopkins University and the Australian National University, and has written extensively on the structures and processes of post-war defence decision-making. He has also written on the onto-political underpinnings of modern international politics in The Political Subject of Violence (1993, co-edited with David Campbell). Klappentext In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics, developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental thought. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, "Politics of Security" establishes the relationship between Heidegger's radical hermeneutical phenomenology and politics and the fundamental link between politics, the tragic and the ethical. It breaks new ground by providing an etymology of security, tracing the word back to the Greek "asphaleia"--meaning not to trip up or fall down-- and a unique political reading of "Oedipus Rex." Michael Dillon traces the roots of desire for security to the metaphysical desire for certitude, and points out that our way of seeking that security is embedded in 20th century technology, thus resulting in a global crisis. Zusammenfassung In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, the author contributes to the re-thinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics, developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 Security, philosophy and politics 2 Radical hermeneutical phenomenology 3 The topos of encounter 4 Interlude: (In)security 5 The political and the tragic 6 Oedipus Asphaleos: The tragedy of (in)security, Conclusion: Imagination at the call of ethico-political responsibility...

'This is a challenging and important book.' - Thomas Dumm, Amherst College

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Michael Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster. He has held visiting positions at The Johns Hopkins University and the Australian National University, and has written extensively on the structures and processes of post-war defence decision-making. He has also written on the onto-political underpinnings of modern international politics in The Political Subject of Violence (1993, co-edited with David Campbell).

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In this critique of security studies, with insights into the thinking of Heidegger, Foucault, Derrida, Levinas and Arendt, Michael Dillon contributes to the rethinking of some of the fundamentals of international politics, developing what might be called a political philosophy of continental thought. Drawing on the work of Martin Heidegger, "Politics of Security" establishes the relationship between Heidegger's radical hermeneutical phenomenology and politics and the fundamental link between politics, the tragic and the ethical. It breaks new ground by providing an etymology of security, tracing the word back to the Greek "asphaleia"--meaning not to trip up or fall down-- and a unique political reading of "Oedipus Rex." Michael Dillon traces the roots of desire for security to the metaphysical desire for certitude, and points out that our way of seeking that security is embedded in 20th century technology, thus resulting in a global crisis.

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Introduction 1 Security, philosophy and politics 2 Radical hermeneutical phenomenology 3 The topos of encounter 4 Interlude: (In)security 5 The political and the tragic 6 Oedipus Asphaleos: The tragedy of (in)security, Conclusion: Imagination at the call of ethico-political responsibility