The ethical subject of security : geopolitical reason and the threat against Europe /
J. Peter Burgess.
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- x, 235 p. ; 25 cm.
- PRIO new security studies .
- PRIO new security studies. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.
Introduction : security as ethos and episteme -- Nietzsche, or value and the subject of security -- Foucault, or genealogy of the ethical subject -- Lacan, or the ethical subject of the real -- Butler, or the precarious subject -- Identity, community and security -- Intolerable insecurity -- Justice in political, legal and moral community -- Psychoanalysis of the national thing -- Security culture and the new ethos of risk -- Insecurity of the European community of values -- The modernity of a cosmopolitan Europe -- The new nomos of Europe -- A federalist Europe between economic and cultural value -- War in the name of Europe and the legitimacy of collective violence -- Conclusion : the many faces of European security.