Cosmopolitan War by C?cile Fabre (English) Paperback Book

Description: Cosmopolitan War by Cécile Fabre Cécile Fabre defends an ethical account of war which focuses on the individual, as a rational and moral agent, over collective groups of people. She offers a new account of just and unjust war, exploring wars of national defence, civil wars, humanitarian intervention, wars involving private military forces, and asymmetrical wars. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description War is about individuals maiming and killing each other, and yet, it seems that it is also irreducibly collective, as it is fought by groups of people and more often than not for the sake of communal values such as territorial integrity and national self-determination. Cécile Fabre articulates and defends an ethical account of war in which the individual, as a moral and rational agent, is the fundamental focus for concern and respect--both as a combatantwhose acts of killing need justifying and as a non-combatant whose suffering also needs justifying. She takes as her starting point a political morality to which the individual, rather than the nation-state, iscentral, namely cosmopolitanism. According to cosmopolitanism, individuals all matter equally, irrespective of their membership in this or that political community. Traditional war ethics already accepts this principle, since it holds that unarmed civilians are illegitimate targets even though they belong to the enemy community. However, although the traditional account of whom we may kill in wars is broadly faithful to that principle, the traditional account of why we may kill and of who maykill is not. Cosmopolitan theorists, for their part, do not address the ethical issues raised by war in any depth. Fabres Cosmopolitan War seeks to fill this gap, and defends its account of just andunjust wars by addressing the ethics of different kinds of war: wars of national defence, wars over scarce resources, civil wars, humanitarian intervention, wars involving private military forces, and asymmetrical wars. Author Biography Cécile Fabre is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Lincoln College. She has written extensively on distributive justice, rights, and the ethics of killing. She has previously published two monographs with Oxford University Press: Social Rights under the Constitution (2000) and Whose Body is it Anyway? (2006). She is a Fellow of the British Academy. Table of Contents Introduction1: Cosmopolitanism2: Collective Self-Defence3: Subsistence Wars4: Civil Wars5: Humanitarian Intervention6: Commodified wars7: Asymmetrical WarsConclusionWorks citedIndex Review `ambitious and innovativeThe Guardian Promotional Cécile Fabre defends an ethical account of war Long Description War is about individuals maiming and killing each other, and yet, it seems that it is also irreducibly collective, as it is fought by groups of people and more often than not for the sake of communal values such as territorial integrity and national self-determination. Cécile Fabre articulates and defends an ethical account of war in which the individual, as a moral and rational agent, is the fundamental focus for concern and respect--both as a combatantwhose acts of killing need justifying and as a non-combatant whose suffering also needs justifying. She takes as her starting point a political morality to which the individual, rather than the nation-state, iscentral, namely cosmopolitanism. According to cosmopolitanism, individuals all matter equally, irrespective of their membership in this or that political community. Traditional war ethics already accepts this principle, since it holds that unarmed civilians are illegitimate targets even though they belong to the enemy community. However, although the traditional account of whom we may kill in wars is broadly faithful to that principle, the traditional account of why we may kill and of who maykill is not. Cosmopolitan theorists, for their part, do not address the ethical issues raised by war in any depth. Fabres Cosmopolitan War seeks to fill this gap, and defends its account of just andunjust wars by addressing the ethics of different kinds of war: wars of national defence, wars over scarce resources, civil wars, humanitarian intervention, wars involving private military forces, and asymmetrical wars. Review Text ambitious and innovativeThe Guardian Review Quote "It is a landmark in the field." -- Ethics Feature Ambitious and innovative work by a leading moral and political philosopherControversial conclusions on familiar topicsDraws on a wide range of historical casesWill be of interest to researchers and students in politics, international relations, and international law, as well as philosophy Details ISBN0198708572 Pages 324 Year 2014 ISBN-10 0198708572 ISBN-13 9780198708575 Format Paperback Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 172.42 Media Book Short Title COSMOPOLITAN WAR Language English Illustrations black & white illustrations UK Release Date 2014-09-04 AU Release Date 2014-09-04 NZ Release Date 2014-09-04 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2014-09-04 Imprint Oxford University Press Alternative 9780199567164 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Author Cécile Fabre We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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