Theorizing War From Hobbes to Bandiou

War is always defined in relation to something else: peace, society, civilization, 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 zizek.

Nick Mansfield teaches Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Acknowledgments	p. viii
Introduction: War and Its Other	p. 1
Posing the Problem	p. 9
Hobbes: War redeemed by sovereignty	p. 9
Kant: Peace through war	p. 19
Clausewitz: War as the activation of the social	p. 28
The War/Other Complex	p. 39
Freud: War and ambivalence	p. 40
Bataille: War, consumption and religion	p. 63
Deleuze and Guattari: Owning the war-machine	p. 82
Under the black light: Derrida, Levinas, Schmitt and the aporia of war	p. 98
The Problem of Difference	p. 119
The collapse of difference: Insisting on Clausewitz	p. 119
Global war	p. 141
Recovering difference	p. 150
Conclusion: War and Human Rights	p. 162
Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 172
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