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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (xix, 214 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107417663
  • 110741766X
  • 9781107360136
  • 1107360137
  • 9781107421684
  • 1107421683
  • 1306072166
  • 9781306072168
  • 1107044316
  • 9781107044319
  • 9781107621435
  • 1107621437
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Emergencies and politicsDDC classification:
  • 363.3401 23
LOC classification:
  • JF256 .S67 2013eb
Other classification:
  • POL010000
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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"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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.

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