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Private Publication, Australia, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. 158 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Australian::Australian Law; Law & Criminal Studies; Law. Inventory No: 233032. .

Birkbeck Law Press, USA, 2010. Softcover. As New. The Other's War is an intervention into a set of contemporary moral, political and legal debates over the legitimacy of war and terrorism within the context of the so-called global War on Terror. Tarik Kochi considers how, despite the variety of its approaches - just war theory, classical realist, post-Kantian, poststructuralist - contemporary ethical, political and legal philosophy still struggles to produce a convincing account of war. Focusing on the philosophical problem of the rightness of war, The Other's War responds to this lack. Through a discussion of a number of key Western intellectual traditions, Kochi demonstrates how often conflicting and contradictory conceptions of war's rightness have developed in modernity. He shows how a process of ordering violence around different notions of right has constantly redrawn the boundaries of what constitutes 'legitimate' violence. Such a process has consequences for anyone who… Read More