War and Social Theory

1. Front Matter

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2. Power and Polemos

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   Pages 1-22

3. Life and Death

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   Pages 23-44

4. Master and Slave

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   Pages 45-66

5. Community and Sacrifice

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6. Injuring and Mourning

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   Pages 89-110

7. Friend and Enemy

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8. Media and Machine

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9. Economy and Empire

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   Pages 156-178

10. Back Matter

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The persistence of war as a feature of modern life is examined through issues of identity and difference, that is, the construction of 'self' and 'other' as individual or community. Key texts relating specifically to identity and war are addressed, including those by Nietzsche, Heiddeger, Marcuse, Freud, Lacan, Honneth, Bataille, Simmel, Elshtain, Ruddick, Schmitt, Delanda, Hardt and Negri, Baudrillard, Virilio, Beck and Joas. Its theoretical approach sets this study apart from the traditional political science and IR approaches to the subject and makes a significant contribution within this area of social theory, cultural studies and communication studies.

• communication
• community
• Cultural Studies
• Honneth
• identity
• political science
• Simmel
• social theory

NEAL CURTIS is Lecturer in Critical Theory and International Communication Studies at Nottingham University, UK. He is the author of Against Autonomy: Lyotard, Judgement and Action.

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