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Theorizing War

From Hobbes to Badiou

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  • © 2008

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  1. Nick Mansfield
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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: War and Its Other

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    Pages 1-7

  3. Posing the Problem

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    Pages 9-38

  4. The War/Other Complex

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    Pages 39-117

  5. The Problem of Difference

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    Pages 119-161

  6. Conclusion: War and Human Rights

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    Pages 162-168

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 169-174
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War is always defined in relation to something else: peace, society, civilisation, friendship or love. What is the relationship between war and its 'other'? Are they opposites or versions of one another? This book surveys four hundred years of thinking about the definition of war, from Hobbes and Clausewitz to Badiou and Žižek.

About the author

NICK MANSFIELD teaches Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on subjectivity, sexuality, cultural studies, discourses of war and human rights and the work of Jacques Derrida. He is co-founding editor of the journal Derrida Today.

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