UID:
almahu_9949866041002882
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 210 pages)
ISBN:
9781003487807
,
1003487807
,
9781040048825
,
104004882X
,
9781040048856
,
1040048854
Content:
"War, from the conflicts in the Middle East and Russia/Ukraine to Mexican narco-violence, from neocolonial land grabs in the Global South to racial, border, health, and climate crises all over the planet, defines the most extreme and contradictory expression of the global world. In this fascinating exploration on the history of the thinking of conflict, Edgar Illas departs from military and sociological analyses to propose a theoretical exploration of war as the ontological force that produces political orders. Magma is used as a geological metaphor to theorize the mixtures of politics and war that organize, and disorganize, global society. Divided into two parts, Illas' study begins by surveying of some of the most important thinkers of war, moving from classical antiquity to the 20th century. Each thinker provides a different inflection in the historical evolution of the being of war. The second part turns to a theorization of the 21st century to claim that conflictive relations between capital, state power, political movements, and social life in globalization culminate and at the same time reiterate the paradoxes of war as an ontological event. The Magma of War is an energizing contribution to the task of rethinking politics in relation to war and an invaluable resource to all those conscious of the unstable forms of contemporary social and political life"--
Note:
Heraclitean cosmic strife -- The Greek polis and the break with war -- Just war in the Res Publica Christiana -- Machiavelli : war as primitive state accumulation -- War and the modern state : Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Hegel -- The continuum between war and state : Clausewitz, Schmitt, Foucault -- The Abyssal gap : deconstructing war -- The immanence of post-statal violence -- A geological nomos -- From postmodern liquid to global magmatic -- The Chthonic dimension of Medea -- Subterranean flow of violence -- The global biopolitics of violence -- A capitalist logic of war -- Magmatic immanence -- Postscript : how to survive in global war?
Additional Edition:
Print version: Illas, Edgar, 1975- Magma of war New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032784243
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003487807
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003487807
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