The Least of All Possible Evils
Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza
by Eyal Weizman

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Author(s)

Eyal Weizman

Publication, year

London : New York : Verso, 2011

Scope

196 Pages, illustrated, 22 cm.

ISBN

9781844676477

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Exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention. 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. 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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Location

Cabinet 30 - 3: Kunst en Rechtspraak

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.