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Politics Most Unusual

Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the `War on Terror'

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Authors:
  1. Damian Cox

    1. Bond University, Australia

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  2. Michael Levine

    1. University of Western Australia, Australia

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  3. Saul Newman

    1. Goldsmiths — University of London, UK

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Politics of Security

    • Damian Cox, Michael Levine, Saul Newman
    Pages 1-23

  3. Religion, Prejudice, Violence and Politics

    • Damian Cox, Michael Levine, Saul Newman
    Pages 24-42

  4. Lying in the War on Terrorism

    • Damian Cox, Michael Levine, Saul Newman
    Pages 43-67

  5. Sovereignty, Violence and the State of Exception

    • Damian Cox, Michael Levine, Saul Newman
    Pages 68-89

  6. American Empire and its Discontents

    • Damian Cox, Michael Levine, Saul Newman
    Pages 90-115

  7. The Lesser of Two Terrors: Ethical Questions

    • Damian Cox, Michael Levine, Saul Newman
    Pages 116-142

  8. On Ways Forward

    • Damian Cox, Michael Levine, Saul Newman
    Pages 143-180

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 181-198
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About this book

How has 9/11 and the declaration of the 'global war on terror' changed our conceptions of politics? How has it affected our understanding of democracy, personal freedom and government accountability? In answering these and other questions, the authors engage in a comprehensive and critical analysis of politics in the age of terrorism.

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'Politics Most Unusual is a significant contribution to the substantial literature taking a broadly 'critical' perspective on the nature of post-9/11 politics. Its key strength is the engagement with a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the nature and significance of neglected aspects of religion and prejudice in contemporary political life and the ways in which 'spin', dissimulation and straightforward lying have ceased to be the mortal sins of politics that they once were. The authors deserve credit for this significant contribution to debate in this field.' John Williams, Contemporary Political Theory

Authors and Affiliations

  • Bond University, Australia

    Damian Cox

  • University of Western Australia, Australia

    Michael Levine

  • Goldsmiths — University of London, UK

    Saul Newman

About the authors

DAMIAN COX is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bond University, Australia. His publications include Integrity and the Fragile Self (2003, co-authored); and articles in metaphysics, epistemology, value theory, environmental ethics, philosophical psychology, and moral theory.

MICHAEL LEVINE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia. Recent publications include Integrity and the Fragile Self (2003, co-authored); Racism in Mind (2003, co-edited), The Analytic Freud (editor); and articles on moral psychology, philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy and architecture.

SAUL NEWMAN is Reader in Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His research is in continental political theory, radical politics, and the politics of violence, terrorism and security. He is the author of From Bakunin to Lacan (2001); Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought (2005) Unstable Universalities (2007), as well as numerous journal articles.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Politics Most Unusual

  • Book Subtitle: Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the `War on Terror'

  • Authors: Damian Cox, Michael Levine, Saul Newman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583825

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-53539-8Published: 11 December 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35837-3Published: 01 January 2009

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-58382-5Published: 04 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 198

  • Topics: Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Political Theory, Democracy

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