Buch(elektronisch)2015

Walzer, Just War and Iraq: Ethics as Response

In: Interventions

In: Interventions Ser.

O'Callaghan, Ronan

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Abstract

Walzer, Just War and Iraq- Front Cover -- Walzer, Just War and Iraq -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Tower of Babel and the ideal of unity -- Michael Walzer and the just war tradition -- Deconstruction as methodology -- Historical analysis and the problem of representation -- With whom does the historical writer of historicism actually empathise? -- Structure of the book -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Morality, community and the justification of war -- Introduction -- There is a thin man inside every fat man -- Self-determination and membership -- Declaration and the birth of community -- Membership and alterity -- War and maximal morality -- Temporal revelation and being -- Différance and secular theology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Violence, ethics and the invasion of Iraq -- A brief history of Iraq -- The pre-war imagining of justice in Iraq -- Occupation and legal authority -- Post-war security -- De-Ba'athification and Sunni resistance -- Religious authority and the Iraqi constitution -- The 2005 election and ethno-sectarian violence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Derrida and ethics -- Introduction -- Ethics as first philosophy -- Community as the possibility of justice -- Ethical action as sacrifice -- Undecidability as justice for the other -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Non-combatant immunity and the sacrifice of rights -- Introduction -- Identifying the target -- Combatant rights -- Justifying the loss of rights -- Freedom and sacrifice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Double effect and its parasites -- Introduction -- The doctrine of double effect -- Pardon me for not meaning to . . . -- In all good faith -- Policing with due care -- Deepening double effect -- Conclusion: ethics as double effect -- Notes.