Targets of Opportunity – On the Militarization of Thinking Weber Paperback

Targets of OpportunityOn the Militarization of Thinking\nAuthor(s): Samuel Weber\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823224760, 978-0823224760\nSynopsis\nThe title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describe\n the American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war against\n Iraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentional\n structure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming to\n destroy a target. At the center of the first chapter is Odysseus's killing of the suitors;\n the second concerns Carl Schmitt's Roman Catholicism and Political Form; the\n third and fourth treat Freud's \""Thoughts for the Times on War and Death\"" and\n \""The Man Moses and Monotheistic Religion.\"" Weber then traces the emergence\n of an alternative to targeting, first within military and strategic thinking itself\n (\""Network Cente""