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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456886103321

Autore

Burgess J. Peter

Titolo

The ethical subject of security : geopolitical reason and the threat against Europe / / J. Peter Burgess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-81187-7

1-283-04014-X

9786613040145

0-203-82894-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 p.)

Collana

PRIO new security studies

Disciplina

172/.4

Soggetti

National security - Moral and ethical aspects - Europe

Internal security - Moral and ethical aspects - Europe

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Theory of the ethical subject -- pt. 2. Holding together -- pt. 3. Geopolitical rationalities of Europe.

Sommario/riassunto

While critical security studies largely concentrates on objects of security, this book focuses on the subject position from which 'securitization' and other security practices take place.First, it argues that the modern subject itself emerges and is sustained as a function of security and insecurity. It suggests, consequently, that no analytic frame can produce or reproduce the subject in some original or primordial form that does not already reproduce a fundamental or structural insecurity. It critically returns, through a variety of studies, to t