Tom Sorell

Emergencies and Politics (eBook, ePUB)

A Sober Hobbesian Approach

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107425743
• Artikelnr.: 53050916

Autorenporträt

Tom Sorell is Professor of Politics and Philosophy at Warwick University. From 2008 to 2012, he led the European Union FP7 Security project DETECTER (on the ethics and human rights issues surrounding the use of detection technologies in counter-terrorism) and is now leader of several Work Packages in the current SURVEILLE project (2012¿15). He is Principal Investigator of the major AHRC project, 'Responsibilities, Ethics and the Financial Crisis' (FinCris), running from 2012 to 2015, and also contributes to the FP7 IT project ACCOMPANY, on robotics and care companions. He has published monographs in history of philosophy, especially on Hobbes and Descartes; moral and political philosophy; epistemology and philosophy of science; as well as several distinct areas of applied ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

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.