Targets of Opportunity : On the Militarization of Thinking.
Title:
Targets of Opportunity : On the Militarization of Thinking.
Author:
Weber, Samuel.
ISBN:
9780823247301
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (164 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - ''A Rather Singular Strike'' -- Chapter 2 - ''The Principle of Representation'': Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form -- Chapter 3 - Wartime: Freud's ''Timely Thoughts on War and Death'' -- Chapter 4 - Doing Away with Freud's Man Moses -- Chapter 5 - Networks, Netwar, and Narratives -- Chapter 6 - The Net and the Carpets -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentionalstructure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming todestroy a target.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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