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Neocleous, Mark

Critique of security/ Mark Neocleous. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008. - vi, 247 p. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

The supreme concept of bourgeois society: liberalism and the technique of security. Security, sovereignty, prerogative. Liberty in security and liberal insecurity. Prerogative and necessity: towards emergency --
Emergency? What emergency? Martial law to emergency powers. Walter Benjamin goes to Senate. Against normality --
From social to national security: on the fabrication of economic order --
garden of security, or 'Security --
this is more like it' --
Containment I: national security, international order and six million corpses --
Security, identity, loyalty --
Containment II: national security, domestic order and the fear of disintegration --
garden of pansies, or 'no communists or cocksuckers in the library' --
Company and the Campus --
Security fetishism --
Security intellectuals --
Closing gambit: return the gift.

ISBN: 0748633294

Subjects--Topical Terms:
National security -- Political aspects
Security, International--State, The
Liberalism -- Social control.

Dewey Class. No.: 355.03 / NEO/C