Notes on the notion of Just War? Debating war with Walzer, iek, Hardt and Negri
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914627 |
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| Authors | Mikkel Bruun Zangenberg (University of Southern Denmark, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17-22 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/jwcs.2.1.17_1 |
| OpenAlex | W2078872311 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The war in Iraq, shadowed by the war on terrorism, raises crucial questions concerning notions of justice. This paper gauges the strategies of Walzer, iek, and Negri and Hardt, vis--vis the Iraq war. Several prominent intellectuals have engaged with the question of the Iraq war; participants in the debate include Beck, Habermas, Chomsky, Badiou, the recently deceased Derrida, Virilio, Giddens, Baudrillard, Agamben and the four figures scrutinized in this paper. The purpose is two-fold: first, to present the opposed strategies of classic rationalism (Walzer), Lacanian psychoanalysis (iek), and Deleuzian vitalism (Hardt and Negri); secondly, to discuss the political efficacy or otherwise of specific intellectuals, as well as their dual agendas when intervening in a specific, political issue; namely an overt, official scenario, and a partly hidden, polemical and almost exclusively academic one. The paper also raises the question of what might/should influence our perception of the role of the intellectual analyzing warfare
Criminology · Epistemology · Multitude · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Writ · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
| Highly cited | No |
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