Description
Book SynopsisFocusing specifically on the United States’ use of killer drones during the War on Terror,
Drone Enlightenment argues that this kind of warfare has its intellectual, ideological, and practical roots in the way the Enlightenment imagined moral agency, occupation, race, and sovereignty.
Trade Review“DeGabriele makes original use of the drone and contemporary drone warfare to open up new readings of the early Enlightenment natural right tradition, as well as using that tradition to reread the drone to examine its relation to questions of sovereignty, occupation and the right to kill. The book straddles Enlightenment philosophy, British literature, warfare, and colonialism past and present, breathing fresh life into an often asthmatic area of scholarship.” - Tony C. Brown, University of Minnesota, author of
The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment ProblematicTable of Contents
- 1. Sovereign (Ir)responsibility
- 2. Remote Occupation
- 3. Deferred Extermination
- Introduction: Drone Warfare, Enlightenment, and Asymmetry
- Epilogue: Publicity and Mediation
- Bibliography
