Week 2: War vs. Politics
Pages refer to book pages not pdf pages so use the table of contents.
Otto von Clausewitz, On War, Oxford University Press, 2008. 6-13, 14-31, 65-67
Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the College de France, 1975-1976. Picador, 2003. 1-64, 87-114
Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, University of Chicago, 2007. 19-37
Week two we will read Michel Foucault’s lectures on Nicolo Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Otto von Clausewitz as well as selections from Carl Schmitt’s Concept of the Political so that as a class we can develop provisional, working definitions of politics and war to use and revise as the class proceeds. In particular these two weeks are a kind of crash course in why people organize states and what purpose war is thought to serve so that as a class we have a common vocabulary to discuss the subsequent texts and problems presented to complicate the distinctions drawn between politics, war, and the state.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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