The Philosophy of War and Exile [Paperback]

Arguing that the suffering of combatants is better understood through philosophy than psychology, as not trauma, but exile, this book investigates the experiences of torturers, UAV operators, cyberwarriors, and veterans to reveal not only the exile at the core of becoming a combatant, but the evasion from exile at the core of being a noncombatant.Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: BECOMING RESPONSIBLE 1. The Lust for War vs. The Lust for Judgment 2. A World Without Responsibility PART II: BEING IN EXILE, BEING AS EXILE 3. What's Wrong with (How We Think About) Torture? 4. Drone Operators, Cyber Warriors, and Prosthetic Gods 5. Of the Many Who Returned and Yet Were Dead Conclusion: Our Veterans, Ourselves Notes Bibliography IndexI found Gertzs book refreshing and eye-opening. His book offers promise for changing the interpretive paradigm of military ethics instruction and analysis, and for motivating caregivers to reassess their boilerplate civilian judgments of troubled soldiers. (Matthew Hallgarth, Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 15 (2), August, 2016)

Nolen Gertz is an Instructor in Philosophy at Delta College, USA. He specializes in applied ethics, political philosophy, and existential phenomenology.