The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza - Hardcover

Weizman, Eyal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844676471 ISBN 13: 9781844676477

Verlag: Verso Books, 2012

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Book by Weizman Eyal

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Praise for Hollow Land A masterpiece of political analysis.A" James Ron, Nation Eyal Weizman has taken Said's thesis to a new level, generating extraordinary, and at times surreally uncomfortable, conclusions - Weizman's book is of salutary interest.A" Jay Merrick, Independent The most astonishing book on architecture that I have read in years.A" Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times A passionate jeremiad.A" John Leonard, Harper's

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"The principle of the lesser evilA"--the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice--has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian theology, to Hannah Arendt's exploration of the work of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi regime, Weizman explores its development in three key transformations of the problem: the defining intervention of Medecins Sans Frontieres in mid-1980s Ethiopia; the separation wall in Israel-Palestine; and international and human rights law in Bosnia, Gaza and Iraq. Drawing on a wealth of new research, Weizman charts the latest manifestation of this age-old idea. In doing so he shows how military and political intervention acquired a new humanitarianA" acceptability and legality in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844676471
• ISBN 13: 9781844676477
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208