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Author O'Callaghan, Ronan, author

Title Walzer, just war and Iraq : ethics as response / Ronan O'Callaghan
Published London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 169 pages .)
Series Interventions
Interventions (Routledge (Firm))
Contents Walzer, Just War and Iraq; Interventions; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of 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; 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 AlterityWar and Maximal Morality; Temporal Revelation and Being; Différance and Secular Theology; Conclusion; Notes; 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; 3 Derrida and Ethics; Introduction; Ethics as First Philosophy; Community as the Possibility of Justice; Ethical Action as Sacrifice
Undecidability as Justice for the OtherConclusion; Notes; 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; 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; Conclusion: Ethics as Response; What the Hell is Water?; Shattering Sisyphus; Responding to Iraqis; References; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-164) and index
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Subject Walzer, Michael
SUBJECT Walzer, Michael fast
Subject Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Moral and ethical aspects
War -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Just war doctrine.
Ethics
Just war doctrine
War -- Moral and ethical aspects
Iraq
Form Electronic book
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