{"product_id":"targets-of-opportunity-on-the-militarization-of-thinking-paperback-softback-9780823224760","title":"Targets of Opportunity; On the Militarization of Thinking (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823224760","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eTargets of Opportunity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn the Militarization of Thinking\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSamuel Weber (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823224760\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 April 2005\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e164 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.276 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe\u003cbr\u003e the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against\u003cbr\u003e Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional\u003cbr\u003e structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming to\u003cbr\u003e destroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus's killing of the suitors;\u003cbr\u003e the second concerns Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form; the\u003cbr\u003e third and fourth treat Freud's \"Thoughts for the Times on War and Death\" and\u003cbr\u003e \"The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion.\" Weber then traces the emergence\u003cbr\u003e of an alternative to targeting, first within military and strategic thinking itself\u003cbr\u003e (\"Network Centered Warfare\"), and then in Walter Benjamin's readings of\u003cbr\u003e \"Capitalism as Religion\" and \"Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580229742872,"sku":"9780823224760","price":22.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/targets-of-opportunity-on-the-militarization-of-thinking-paperback-softback-9780823224760","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}