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Book SynopsisFrom 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 versatili
Trade ReviewNamed a Harvard University Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2014 "[This] is a wonderfully rich volume that makes punctual yet decisive incursions leading to brilliant new readings of canonical texts... Through the cornucopia of its corpus and the generosity of its gesture, Security is above all an invitation to think along, to think further and deeper, to pursue the project of the book on a yet wider corpus. It invites us to practice the philology of care in our approach to books but also to the world."--Hall Bjornstad, L'Esprit Createur "[A] masterful meditation."--Ellwood Wiggins, Modern Language Quarterly
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Part One: Preliminary Concerns 1 1. Homo Curans 3 2. Security Studies and Philology 7 3. Handle with Care 25 Part Two: Etymologies and Figures 49 4. A Brief Semantic History of Securitas 51 5. The Pasture and the Garden 68 6. Security on the Beach 83 7. Tranquillity, Anger, and Caution 114 Part Three: Occupying Security 135 8. Fortitude and Maternal Care 137 9. Embarkations 168 10. Lingua Homini Lupus 182 11. Repercussions 201 12. Revolution's Chances 224 13. Vital Instabilities 238 14. The Sorrow of Thinking 262 15. Surveillance, Conspiracy, and the Nanny State 284 On the Main 299 Works Cited 301 Index 317
