Targets of Opportunity On the Militarization of Thinking

Name: Targets of Opportunity On the Militarization of Thinking
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ISBN: 9780823224760

ISBN-10: 0823224767

ISBN-13: 9780823224760

Edition: 4th 2005

Authors: Samuel Weber

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The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming to destroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus's killing of the suitors; the second concerns Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form; the third and fourth treat Freud's ocirc;Thoughts for the Times on War and Deathouml; and ocirc;The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion.ouml; Weber then traces the emergence of an alternative to targeting, first…

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List price: $30.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 164
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English




"A rather singular strike"



"The principle of representation" : Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and political form



Wartime : Freud's "timely thoughts on war and death"



Doing away with Freud's Man Moses



Networks, netwar, and narratives



The Net and the carpets