Emergencies and Politics: A Sober Hobbesian Approach

by Tom Sorell

In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, such as national governments. He develops a theory of the response of governments to public emergencies which indicates the possibility of a democratic politics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107044316
• ISBN13: 9781107044319
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"