Liberal Defence Of Murder Cl
by Seymour,RichardEdition: 00
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-10-17
Publisher(s): VERSO
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Summary
A war that has killed over a million Iraqis was a 'humanitarian intervention', the US army is a force for liberation, and the main threat to world peace is posed by Islam.Those are the arguments of a host of liberal commentators, ranging from Christopher Hitchens to Kanan Makiya, Michael Ignatieff, Paul Berman, and Bernard-Henri Levy. In this criticall intervention, Richard Seymour unearts the history of liberal justifications for empire, showing how savage policies of conquest'”including genocide and slavery'”have been retailed as charitable missions.From the Cold War to the War on Terror, Seymour argues that the colonial tropes of 'civilization' and 'progress' still shape liberal pro-war discourse, and still conceal the same bloody realities.
Author Biography
Richard Seymour lives, works and writes in London. He runs the Lenin’s Tomb website, which comments on the War on Terror, Islamophobia and neoliberalism.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Prologue: September 11 and Kriegsideologie | p. 1 |
| Forging Old Europe | p. 23 |
| Creating an Imperial Constituency | p. 79 |
| Neocons and Apostates | p. 119 |
| A Courageous Retreat | p. 165 |
| Conclusion: The Apotheosis of Humanitarian Barbarism | p. 217 |
| Notes | p. 271 |
| Index | p. 345 |
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