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War and the Politics of Ethics

Af: Maja Zehfuss Engelsk Hardback

War and the Politics of Ethics

Af: Maja Zehfuss Engelsk Hardback
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Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West''s ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time, however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox: Western war risks killing those it proposes to protect. This book examines how we have responded to this dilemma and challenges the vision of ethical war itself, exploring how the commitment to ethics shapes the practice of war and indeed how practices come, in turn, to shape what is considered ethical in war. The book closely examines particular practices of warfare, such as targeting, the use of cultural knowledge, and ethics training for soldiers. What emerges is that instead of constraining violence, the commitment to ethics enables and enhances it. The book argues that the production of ethical war relies on an impossible but obscured separation between ethics and politics, that is, the problematic politics of ethics, and reflects on the need to make decisions at the limit of ethics.
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Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West''s ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed even required, as ethical war. At the same time, however, Western war kills and destroys. This creates a paradox: Western war risks killing those it proposes to protect. This book examines how we have responded to this dilemma and challenges the vision of ethical war itself, exploring how the commitment to ethics shapes the practice of war and indeed how practices come, in turn, to shape what is considered ethical in war. The book closely examines particular practices of warfare, such as targeting, the use of cultural knowledge, and ethics training for soldiers. What emerges is that instead of constraining violence, the commitment to ethics enables and enhances it. The book argues that the production of ethical war relies on an impossible but obscured separation between ethics and politics, that is, the problematic politics of ethics, and reflects on the need to make decisions at the limit of ethics.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 246
ISBN-13: 9780198807995
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0198807996
Kategori: Etik og moralfilosofi
Udg. Dato: 8 feb 2018
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 242mm
Højde: 166mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 8 feb 2018
Forfatter(e): Maja Zehfuss
Forfatter(e) Maja Zehfuss

Kategori Etik og moralfilosofi

ISBN-13 9780198807995

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 246

Udgave

Længde 24mm

Bredde 242mm

Højde 166mm

Udg. Dato 8 feb 2018

Oplagsdato 8 feb 2018

Forlag Oxford University Press