The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations

by Daniel Heller-Roazen

Book Overview

The philosophical genealogy of a remarkable antagonist: the pirate, the key to the contemporary paradigm of the universal foe.

The pirate is the original enemy of humankind. As Cicero famously remarked, there are certain enemies with whom one may negotiate and with whom, circumstances permitting, one may establish a truce. But there is also an enemy with whom treaties are in vain and war remains incessant. This is the pirate, considered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890951943
• ISBN13: 9781890951948
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher