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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826002203321

Autore

Sorell Tom

Titolo

Emergencies and politics : a sober Hobbesian approach / / Tom Sorell, University of Warwick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-42574-3

1-139-89373-4

1-107-42341-4

1-107-42028-8

1-107-41766-X

1-107-36013-7

1-107-42168-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

POL010000

Disciplina

363.3401

Soggetti

War and emergency powers - Philosophy

Democracy

Liberalism

Rule of law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Private emergencies and institutions -- 2. Public emergencies, black holes and sober Hobbesianism -- 3. Liberalism with Hobbesian sobriety -- 4. Can liberal emergency-response address threats to peoples and civilizations? -- 5. Liberalism and emergency-response: national community -- 6. Legislating for emergencies and legislating in emergencies -- 7. International security, human security and emergency.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, such as national governments. He develops a theory of the response of governments to public emergencies which indicates



the possibility of a democratic politics that is liberal but that takes seriously threats to life and limb from public disorder, crime or terrorism. Informed by Hobbes, Schmitt and Walzer, but substantially different from them, the book widens the justification for recourse to normally forbidden measures, without resorting to illiberal politics. This book will interest students of politics, philosophy, international relations and law.