Targets of Opportunity : On the Militarization of Thinking / Samuel Weber.
2009
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Title
Targets of Opportunity : On the Militarization of Thinking / Samuel Weber.
Author
Weber, Samuel, author.
ISBN
9780823238323
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (164 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823238323 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.6/6
Summary
The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentionalstructure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming todestroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus's killing of the suitors;the second concerns Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form; thethird and fourth treat Freud's "Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" and"The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion." Weber then traces the emergenceof an alternative to targeting, first within military and strategic thinking itself("Network Centered Warfare"), and then in Walter Benjamin's readings of"Capitalism as Religion" and "Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin."
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
1. ''A Rather Singular Strike''
2. ''The Principle of Representation'': Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form
3. Wartime: Freud's ''Timely Thoughts on War and Death''
4. Doing Away With Freud's Man Moses
5. Networks, Netwar, and Narratives
6. The Net and the Carpets
Notes
Index
Contents
Preface
1. ''A Rather Singular Strike''
2. ''The Principle of Representation'': Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form
3. Wartime: Freud's ''Timely Thoughts on War and Death''
4. Doing Away With Freud's Man Moses
5. Networks, Netwar, and Narratives
6. The Net and the Carpets
Notes
Index