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Critique of security/ Mark Neocleous.

By: Neocleous, MarkMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008Description: vi, 247 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0748633294Subject(s): National security -- Political aspects | Security, International -- State, The | Liberalism -- Social controlDDC classification: 355.03

Contents:

The supreme concept of bourgeois society: liberalism and the technique of security. Security, sovereignty, prerogative. Liberty in security and liberal insecurity. Prerogative and necessity: towards emergency -- Emergency? What emergency? Martial law to emergency powers. Walter Benjamin goes to Senate. Against normality -- From social to national security: on the fabrication of economic order -- garden of security, or 'Security -- this is more like it' -- Containment I: national security, international order and six million corpses -- Security, identity, loyalty -- Containment II: national security, domestic order and the fear of disintegration -- garden of pansies, or 'no communists or cocksuckers in the library' -- Company and the Campus -- Security fetishism -- Security intellectuals -- Closing gambit: return the gift.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	355.03 NEO/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P22402

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.

The supreme concept of bourgeois society: liberalism and the technique of security. Security, sovereignty, prerogative. Liberty in security and liberal insecurity. Prerogative and necessity: towards emergency --
Emergency? What emergency? Martial law to emergency powers. Walter Benjamin goes to Senate. Against normality --
From social to national security: on the fabrication of economic order --
garden of security, or 'Security --
this is more like it' --
Containment I: national security, international order and six million corpses --
Security, identity, loyalty --
Containment II: national security, domestic order and the fear of disintegration --
garden of pansies, or 'no communists or cocksuckers in the library' --
Company and the Campus --
Security fetishism --
Security intellectuals --
Closing gambit: return the gift.

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