War and the politics of ethics / Maja Zehfuss
- Author:
- Zehfuss, Maja
- Published:
- Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Copyright Date:
- ©2018
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 231 pages ; 25 cm
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 1.1.The Rise of Ethical War -- 1.2.Plan of the Book -- 2.The Paradox of Ethical War and the Politics of Ethics -- 2.1.The Paradox of Ethical War -- 2.2.Negotiating the Paradox: Just War Thinking -- 2.3.The Legitimation of War -- 2.4.The Tragedy of Death and the Aporia of Responsibility -- 2.5.War and the Politics of Ethics -- 2.6.Conclusion -- 3.Targeting: Precision Bombing and the Production of Ethics -- 3.1.In Praise of Precision -- 3.2.Precision in Practice -- 3.3.Precision and Protection -- 3.4.Precision and the Production of Ethics -- 3.5.Drone Warfare and the Promise of Precision -- 3.6.Conclusion -- 4.Culture: Knowledge of the People as Technology of Ethics -- 4.1.The Rise of Culture: Towards a Battle for the People -- 4.2.Culture in Practice: The Counterinsurgency Manual -- 4.3.Social Scientists into War: The Human Tercain System -- 4.4.The People as the Battlefield -- 4.5.Social Science: Objective Knowledge as Technology of Ethics -- 4.6.Conclusion -- 5.Ethics Education: Ethics as Ethos and the Impossibly Good Soldier -- 5.1.Forces for Good -- 5.2.Making Good Soldiers -- 5.3.Good Soldiers, Good War? -- 5.4.Virtue Ethics and the Impossibly Good Soldier -- 5.5.Conclusion -- 6.The Politics of War at the Limits of Ethics -- 6.1.The Seduction of Ethics -- 6.2.Responding within Ethics -- 6.3.Responding at the Limits of Ethics -- 6.4.Conclusion.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 0198807996
9780198807995 - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.
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