1st Edition
Politics of Security Towards a Political Phiosophy of Continental Thought
By Michael Dillon
Copyright 1996
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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).
'This is a challenging and important book.' - Thomas Dumm, Amherst College
