Logics of War by Therese Feiler - 9780567698933

Logics of WarThe Use of Force and the Problem of Mediation\nAuthor(s): Therese Feiler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780567698933, 978-0567698933\nSynopsis\nThe modern ethics of war is a field of disparate, competing voices based on often unexplored theological and metaphysical assumptions. Therese Feiler approaches them from the borderline area between systematics, philosophical theology and religious studies. With reference to G. W. F. Hegel's and like-minded thinkers' 'theologic' that negotiates Christs mediation and immanent dialectics, Feiler identifies the logic and problem of mediation as the core concern of political ethics. \n\n Feiler unites five representative authors from now disparate strands of contemporary just war ethics, testing whether they offer a meaningful possibility of mediation and subsequent reconciliation: a sovereign realist and a cosmopolitan idealist; a rationalist individu.