War is always defined in relation to something else: peace, society, civilisation, friendship or love. What is the relationship between war and its 'other'? Are they opposites or versions of one another? This book surveys four hundred years of thinking about the definition of war, from Hobbes and Clausewitz to Badiou and Žižek.

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NICK MANSFIELD teaches Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He has published widely on subjectivity, sexuality, cultural studies, discourses of war and human rights and the work of Jacques Derrida. He is co-founding editor of the journal Derrida Today.

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Book Title: Theorizing War
Book Subtitle: From Hobbes to Badiou
Authors: Nick Mansfield
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230234949
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53732-3Published: 30 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35907-3Published: 01 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-23494-9Published: 30 September 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 174
Topics: Intellectual Studies, Social Philosophy, Military and Defence Studies, Performing Arts, History of Military, Ethics

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: War and Its Other

Posing the Problem

The War/Other Complex

The Problem of Difference

Conclusion: War and Human Rights

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