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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808465303321

Autore

Dillon Michael <1945, >

Titolo

Politics of security : towards a political philosophy of continental thought / / Michael Dillon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-79362-6

0-8047-6010-1

0-203-05080-0

9786612777622

1-282-77762-9

1-134-79363-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

327.1/01

Soggetti

Security, International - Philosophy

International relations - Philosophy

Political science - Philosophy

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 (p. [237]-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Security, philosophy and politics; Radical hermeneutical phenomenology; The topos of encounter; Interlude: (In)security; The political and the tragic; Oedipus Asphaleos: The tragedy of (in)security; Imagination at the call of ethico-political responsibility; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 Heidegger's readical hermeneutical phenomenology and politics and the fundamental link between politics, the tragic and the ethical. It breaks new ground by providing an etymology of security, trac