Liberal Terror

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Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the most secure of times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the threat of another devastating terrorist attacks, a natural disaster or unexpected catastrophe, anxieties and fears define the global political age. While liberal governments and security agencies have responded by advocating a new catastrophic topography of interconnected planetary endangerment, our desire to securitize everything has rendered all things potentially terrifying. This is the fateful paradox of contemporary liberal rule. The more we seek to secure, the more our imaginaries of threat proliferate. Nothing can therefore be left to chance. For everything has the potential to be truly catastrophic. Such is the emerging state of terror normality we find ourselves in today. This illuminating book by Brad Evans provides a critical evaluation of the wide ranging terrors which are deemed threatening to advanced liberal societies. Moving beyond the assumption that liberalism is integral to the realisation of perpetual peace, human progress, and political emancipation on a planetary scale, it exposes how liberal security regimes are shaped by a complex life-centric rationality which directly undermines any claims to universal justice and co-habitation. Through an incisive and philosophically enriched critique of the contemporary liberal practices of making life more secure, Evans forces us to confront the question of what it means to live politically as we navigate through the dangerous uncertainty of the 21st Century.

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Continental Philosophy Kontinentalphilosophie Philosophie Philosophy Political Philosophy & Theory Political Revolution / Violence / Terrorism Political Science Politikwissenschaft Politische Philosophie Politische Philosophie u. Politiktheorie Politische Revolution, Gewalt, Terrorismus Terrorismus

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"Makes an important macro-theoretical contribution to themicro-level ethnographies of security conducted ingeography." Antipode "In this brilliant book, Brad Evans offers a forceful, cogent, andeye-opening analysis of the complex forces shaping the new normalof terror and security, and provides the theoretical and politicaltools to challenge it. Liberal Terror should be requiredreading for everyone concerned about both the changing nature andfate of politics today." Henry Giroux, Professor of Global Media Networks, McMasterUniversity "Liberal interventionism is driven by imaginaries of fear anduncertainty. With its desperate quest to control ungoverned spaceand eliminate autonomy in order to secure the global bio-sphere,this interventionism now engulfs us all. Brad Evans has written asuperb and vital critique which is highly original and compelling.It demands our attention." Mark Duffield, University of Bristol "A tour de force. Page after page, the rhetorical motions of thetext are disruptive, insightful and compelling. Acounter-effectuation of the prevailing, neo-liberal politicalconceits in both academic and governmental spaces, itscontributions to security analysis, critical methods, and politicalthinking in general will have lasting effects." Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii, Manoa"This book is essential reading for anybody who wants to understandthe 21st Century security terrain. It illustrates withsophisticated critical poise the ethical and political stakes ofthe contemporary attempts at securing planetary life. In doing so,the need to think beyond the failures of liberal humanism becomesaltogether more urgent and pressing." Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research
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