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Emergencies and politics : a sober Hobbesian approach / Tom Sorell.

Sorell, Tom.
2013
JF256 .S67 2013
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Title
Emergencies and politics : a sober Hobbesian approach / Tom Sorell.
Author
Sorell, Tom.
ISBN
9781107044319
9781107421684 (electronic book)
Published
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (236 pages)
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JF256 .S67 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.3401
Summary
"In this book Tom Sorell argues that emergencies can justify types of action that would normally be regarded as wrong. Beginning with the ethics of emergencies facing individuals, he explores the range of effective and legitimate private emergency response and its relation to public institutions, such as national governments. He develops a theory of the response of governments to public emergencies which indicates the possibility of a democratic politics that is liberal but that takes seriously threats to life and limb from public disorder, crime or terrorism. Informed by Hobbes, Schmitt and Walzer, but substantially different from them, the book widens the justification for recourse to normally forbidden measures, without resorting to illiberal politics. This book will interest students of politics, philosophy, international relations and law"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Private emergencies and institutions; 2. Public emergencies, black holes and sober Hobbesianism; 3. Liberalism with Hobbesian sobriety; 4. Can liberal emergency-response address threats to peoples and civilizations?; 5. Liberalism and emergency-response: national community; 6. Legislating for emergencies and legislating in emergencies; 7. International security, human security and emergency; Conclusion.

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