03354nam 2200769 a 450 991082727690332120230120085516.00-8232-3832-60-8232-4730-90-8232-3565-31-282-69865-697866126986510-8232-2477-510.1515/9780823238323(CKB)3390000000007662(EBL)3239650(SSID)ssj0000443088(PQKBManifestationID)11262526(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443088(PQKBWorkID)10465415(PQKB)10956333(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021298(OCoLC)607611319(MdBmJHUP)muse14951(DE-B1597)555038(DE-B1597)9780823238323(Au-PeEL)EBL3239650(CaPaEBR)ebr10583806(CaONFJC)MIL269865(OCoLC)748361866(OCoLC)1098636110(Au-PeEL)EBL476698(OCoLC)727645706(MiAaPQ)EBC3239650(MiAaPQ)EBC476698(EXLCZ)99339000000000766220050112d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTargets of opportunity[electronic resource] on the militarization of thinking /Samuel Weber1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20051 online resource (164 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8232-2476-7 0-8232-2475-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-146) and index."A rather singular strike" -- "The principle of representation" : Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and political form -- Wartime : Freud's "timely thoughts on war and death" -- Doing away with Freud's man Moses -- Networks, netwar, and narratives -- The net and the carpets.The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentionalstructure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming todestroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus’s killing of the suitors;the second concerns Carl Schmitt’s Roman Catholicism and Political Form; thethird and fourth treat Freud’s “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” and“The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion.” Weber then traces the emergenceof an alternative to targeting, first within military and strategic thinking itself(“Network Centered Warfare”), and then in Walter Benjamin’s readings of“Capitalism as Religion” and “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin.”PhilosophyWar (Philosophy)Psychoanalysis and philosophyPhilosophy.War (Philosophy)Psychoanalysis and philosophy.303.6/6Weber Samuel1940-1517MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827276903321Targets of opportunity3981101UNINA