The Biopolitics of the War on Terror: Life Struggles, Liberal Modernity and the Defence of Logistical Societies

By Julian Reid

Book Overview

This is a book which completely overturns existing understandings of the origins and futures of the War on Terror for the purposes of International Relations theory. As the author shows, this is not a war in defence of the integrity of human life against an enemy defined simply by a contradictory will for the destruction of human life as commonly supposed by its liberal advocates. It is a war over the political constitution of life in which the limitations of liberal accounts of humanity are being put to the test if not rejected outright. Seeking a way out of this conflict must in turn mean learning to question the limits of existing understandings of what constitutes human life and its political potentialities. The pursuit of such a line of questioning is integral to the biopolitical analysis developed in this book.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719074053
• ISBN13: 9780719074059
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"