Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care
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Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care
By (Author) John T. Hamilton
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th July 2013
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social and political philosophy
401.4
Short-listed for Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellowship 2014
Physical Properties
Hardback
336
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
567g
Description
From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security In this original and timely book, John Hamilton examines the discursive versatili
Reviews
Named a Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2014 "[This] is a wonderfully rich volume that makes punctual yet decisive incursions leading to brilliant new readings of canonical texts... Through the cornucopia of its corpus and the generosity of its gesture, Security is above all an invitation to think along, to think further and deeper, to pursue the project of the book on a yet wider corpus. It invites us to practice the philology of care in our approach to books but also to the world."--Hall Bjornstad, L'Esprit Createur "[A] masterful meditation."--Ellwood Wiggins, Modern Language Quarterly
Author Bio
John T. Hamilton is professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. He is the author of "Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language" and "Soliciting Darkness: Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition".
