Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking

by Samuel Weber and Samuel Weber

Book Overview

The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe
the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against
Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional
structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming to
destroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus's killing of the suitors;
the second concerns Carl...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823224767
• ISBN13: 9780823224760
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"