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Humanity and the Enemy

How Ethics Can Rid Politics of Violence

  • Hardback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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Humanity and the Enemy attempts to show the limits and problems of the current and dominant idea of politics based on the friend-and-enemy logic, typical of the thought of Carl Schmitt. It proposes an alternative view in which politics and ethics are inextricably intertwined. This view entails the overcoming of the Enemy thought, namely, of the notion that there must always be an enemy. This overcoming can only be accomplished through resistance on the basis of radical changes in the material and cultural conditions of social life. These changes include the dismantling of the inherently violent system of capital and its law, the elimination of poverty and fear, the abandonment of the logic of total and permanent war, and the establishment of structures for the flowering of human dignity and freedom. Humanity itself must become a political subject in order to deactivate and reject the conditions of inhumanity characterizing and crippling our present world.
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  • Title

    Humanity and the Enemy

  • Author

    B. Gulli

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Palgrave Macmillan

  • Published

    December 2014

  • Weight

    341g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781137456472

  • ISBN-10

    1137456477

  • Eden Code

    4592026

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