Michael Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster. He has held visiting positions at The Johns Hopkins University and the Australian National University, and has written extensively on the structures and processes of post-war defence decision-making. He has also written on the onto-political underpinnings of modern international politics in The Political Subject of Violence (1993, co-edited with David Campbell).

'This is a challenging and important book.' - Thomas Dumm, Amherst College

• Introduction 1 Security, philosophy and politics 2 Radical hermeneutical phenomenology 3 The topos of encounter 4 Interlude: (In)security 5 The political and the tragic 6 Oedipus Asphaleos: The tragedy of (in)security, Conclusion: Imagination at the call of ethico-political responsibility

Michael Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster. He has held visiting positions at The Johns Hopkins University and the Australian National University, and has written extensively on the structures and processes of post-war defence decision-making. He has also written on the onto-political underpinnings of modern international politics in The Political Subject of Violence (1993, co-edited with David Campbell).

'This is a challenging and important book.' - Thomas Dumm, Amherst College

• Introduction 1 Security, philosophy and politics 2 Radical hermeneutical phenomenology 3 The topos of encounter 4 Interlude: (In)security 5 The political and the tragic 6 Oedipus Asphaleos: The tragedy of (in)security, Conclusion: Imagination at the call of ethico-political responsibility

Michael Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Lancaster. He has held visiting positions at The Johns Hopkins University and the Australian National University, and has written extensively on the structures and processes of post-war defence decision-making. He has also written on the onto-political underpinnings of modern international politics in The Political Subject of Violence (1993, co-edited with David Campbell).

'This is a challenging and important book.' - Thomas Dumm, Amherst College

• Introduction 1 Security, philosophy and politics 2 Radical hermeneutical phenomenology 3 The topos of encounter 4 Interlude: (In)security 5 The political and the tragic 6 Oedipus Asphaleos: The tragedy of (in)security, Conclusion: Imagination at the call of ethico-political responsibility