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Preface ix
1 The war on terror 1
A new discourse on war? 1
Richard Rorty and the ethics of war 7
Conclusion 15
2 Etiquettes of atrocity 17
Etiquettes of atrocity 17
Why we take prisoners of war 24
Discourses on war 30
Keeping to the discourse 35
The United States and Vietnam 36
Carl Schmitt and the Theory of the Partisan 44
Conclusion 52
3 Changing the discourse 54
Germany and the Eastern Front 1941-5 54
Algeria and the guerre revolutionaire 61
Israel and the intifada 67
Conclusion 74
4 A new discourse 77
Excluding from the discourse on war: from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib 77
Is it a war? 79
A new paradigm? 87
New wars, new paradigms 95
Conclusion 112
5 Grammars of killing 114
Grammars of killing 115
Respecting our enemies 124
Non-lethal weapons 127
Conclusion 131
6 The unconditional imperative 132
Micro-management of the battlefield 134
Corporate warriors? 138
Asimov's children 143
Conclusion 152
7 Back to the Greeks 155
Back to the Greeks? 155
Simone Weil and The Iliad 157
Reading Thucydides 160
What is Hecuba to him? 165
8 The heuristics of fear 169
The ambiguity of peace 170
Towards the future 174
Notes 176
Bibliography 189
Index 193
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Stephen Heberlein
reviewed Ethics and War in the 21st Century on November 29, 2013
Ethics and War in the 21st Century
This is an antipode of Kapuściński. The Polish master found poetry in the ruins of the human condition. Goytisolo builds brick and mortar monuments chieseled with proing questions. This collection of dispatches scans a series of eruptions in the 1990s all concerning Muslims: Bosnia, Occupied Palestine, Algeria and Chechnya. The Sarajevo section is the most emotional, the least constructed.
Goytisolo concludes the survey with a challenging parallel; he diagnoses the misteps Spain undertook in the 15tth through 19th Centuries. He then compares this to a recent history of North Africa and the Middle east. Despite being published in book form in 2000, the insights are rather precisent, especially given the events in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria.
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