TY - BOOK AU - Hamilton,John T. TI - Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care T2 - Translation/Transnation SN - 9780691157528 AV - BV4647.S9 H35 2017 U1 - 128 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Caring KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Human security KW - Security (Psychology) KW - Security, International KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - Carl Schmitt KW - Cicero KW - Claude Favre de Vaugelas KW - Cura KW - Der Bau KW - Franz Kafka KW - French lexicon KW - Friedrich Nietzsche KW - Genesis KW - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz KW - Greco-Roman culture KW - Heine KW - Heinrich von Kleist KW - Hyginus KW - Johann Gottlieb Fichte KW - Jules Michelet KW - Kant KW - Martin Heidegger KW - Roman literature KW - Stoic KW - Thomas Hobbes KW - ancient Rome KW - animals KW - bachelorhood KW - care KW - cura KW - cyber-security KW - decisionism KW - ecumenism KW - exception KW - fables KW - fear KW - freedom KW - historians KW - historicity KW - homeland KW - hope KW - human beings KW - human rights KW - humanity KW - insecurity KW - land KW - language KW - metaphors KW - moral philosophy KW - national security KW - negligence KW - philology KW - philosophers KW - philosophy KW - political philosophy KW - rational judgment KW - safety KW - sea KW - secularization KW - securitas KW - security KW - self KW - selfhood KW - semantics KW - seventeenth-century Europe KW - social security KW - sovereignty KW - state power KW - state safety KW - uncertainty N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Part One. Preliminary Concerns --; 1. Homo Curans --; 2. Security Studies and Philology --; 3. Handle with Care --; Part Two. Etymologies and Figures --; 4. A Brief Semantic History of Securitas --; 5. The Pasture and the Garden --; 6. Security on the Beach --; 7. Tranquillity, Anger, and Caution --; Part Three. Occupying Security --; 8. Fortitude and Maternal Care --; 9. Embarkations --; 10. Lingua Homini Lupus --; 11. Repercussions --; 12. Revolution's Chances --; 13. Vital Instabilities --; 14. The Sorrow of Thinking --; 15. Surveillance, Conspiracy, and the Nanny State --; On the Main --; Works Cited --; Index --; Backmatter; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - From national security and social security to homeland and cyber-security, "security" has become one of the most overused words in culture and politics today. Yet it also remains one of the most undefined. What exactly are we talking about when we talk about security? In this original and timely book, John Hamilton examines the discursive versatility and semantic vagueness of security both in current and historical usage. Adopting a philological approach, he explores the fundamental ambiguity of this word, which denotes the removal of "concern" or "care" and therefore implies a condition that is either carefree or careless. Spanning texts from ancient Greek poetry to Roman Stoicism, from Augustine and Luther to Machiavelli and Hobbes, from Kant and Nietzsche to Heidegger and Carl Schmitt, Hamilton analyzes formulations of security that involve both safety and negligence, confidence and complacency, certitude and ignorance. Does security instill more fear than it assuages? Is a security purchased with freedom or human rights morally viable? How do security projects inform our expectations, desires, and anxieties? And how does the will to security relate to human finitude? Although the book makes clear that security has always been a major preoccupation of humanity, it also suggests that contemporary panics about security and the related desire to achieve perfect safety carry their own very significant risks UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400846474?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400846474 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400846474.jpg ER -