The least of all possible evils : a short history of humanitarian violence

著者

• Weizman, Eyal

書誌事項

The least of all possible evils : a short history of humanitarian violence

Eyal Weizman

Verso, 2017

• : [pbk.]

注記

Originally published: 2011

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The principle of the 'lesser evil'-the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice-has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian theology, to Hannah Arendt's exploration of the work of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi regime, Weizman explores its development in three key transformations of the problem: the defining intervention of Medecins Sans Frontieres in mid-1980s Ethiopia; the separation wall in Israel-Palestine; and international and human rights law in Bosnia, Gaza and Iraq. Drawing on a wealth of new research, Weizman charts the latest manifestation of this age-old idea. In doing so he shows how military and political intervention acquired a new 'humanitarian' acceptability and legality in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB25560640
• ISBN:
  • 9781786632739
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: viii, 196 p., [1] leaf of plates
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 341.584
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Humanitarian intervention -- Moral and ethical aspects
  • LCSH : Humanitarian intervention -- Philosophy