Humanity and the Enemy

"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"-- "Humanity and the Enemy attempts to show the limits and problems of an idea of politics based on the friend-and-enemy logic. It proposes an alternative view, in which politics and ethics are inextricably intertwined. This view entails the overcoming of the Enemy thought as well as radical changes in the material and cultural conditions of social life"--

Year

2014

Language

English

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Editions

4

Pages

179

ISBN

9781137456472

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