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    Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking
    Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking
    Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking
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    Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking

    By Samuel Weber

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    The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe
    the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against
    Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional
    structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming to
    destroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus’s killing of the suitors;
    the second concerns Carl Schmitt’s Roman Catholicism and Political Form; the
    third and fourth treat Freud’s “Thoughts for the Times on War and Death” and
    “The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion.” Weber then traces the emergence
    of an alternative to targeting, first within military and strategic thinking itself
    (“Network Centered Warfare”), and then in Walter Benjamin’s readings of
    “Capitalism as Religion” and “Two Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFordham University Press
    Release dateAug 25, 2009
    ISBN9780823224777
    Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking

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