B. Gullì 
Humanity and the Enemy 
How Ethics Can Rid Politics of Violence

The book questions the concept of ‘the enemy, ‘ beginning with Carl Schmitt’s famous notion that politics is the relationship of friend and enemy and that humanity is not a political concept. This book deconstructs this notion and views humanity at the center of a type of politics based on ethics.

Table of Content

Introduction 1. Ethics and the Law: Reconsidering the Friend-and-Enemy Logic Remark: Machiavelli and the Desire for Freedom 2. The Ethical Obligation to Disobey and Resist 3. Deactivate Violence: Human Insecurity, the Enemy, and the Other 4. Labor, Poverty, and Migration: Sovereign Terror and the War against Humanity 5. Deactivate Terror and the Enemy Logic Conclusion – Humanity without the Enemy

About the author

Bruno Gulli is Assistant Professor at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York, USA.