Exceptionalism and the politics of counter-terrorism: liberty, security, and the War on Terror/ Andrew W. Neal.

By: Neal, Andrew WMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in liberty and securityPublication details: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : New York, NY : Routledge, 2010Description: x, 184 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415456753 (hardcover); 0415456754 (hardcover)Subject(s): Liberty | National security | Terrorism -- Prevention | War on Terrorism, 2001-2009DDC classification: 327.117
Contents:
The liberty/security discourse and the problem of the exception -- Freedom and liberty in classic political theory : Hobbes and Kant -- Carl Schmitt and the politics of the exception -- Giorgio Agamben's exception : 'the great historico-transcendental destiny of the Occident' -- Securitization theory : practices of sovereign naming -- Foucault in Guantanamo : towards an archaeology of the exception -- The rise and fall of Schmitt at the hands of Foucault and others.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-178) and index.

The liberty/security discourse and the problem of the exception -- Freedom and liberty in classic political theory : Hobbes and Kant -- Carl Schmitt and the politics of the exception -- Giorgio Agamben's exception : 'the great historico-transcendental destiny of the Occident' -- Securitization theory : practices of sovereign naming -- Foucault in Guantanamo : towards an archaeology of the exception -- The rise and fall of Schmitt at the hands of Foucault and others.

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