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.
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National security -- Political aspects Security, International--State, The Liberalism -- Social control.