Critique of security / Mark Neocleous.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-242) and index.

1. The supreme concept of bourgeois society: liberalism and the technique of security -- Security, sovereignty, prerogative -- Liberty in security and liberal insecurity -- Prerogative and necessity: towards emergency -- 2. Emergency? What emergency? -- Martial law to emergency powers -- Walter Benjamin goes to Senate -- Against normality -- 3. From social to national security: on the fabrication of economic order -- The garden of security, or 'Security - this is more like it' -- Containment I: national security, international order and six million corpses -- 4. Security, identity, loyalty -- Containment II: national security, domestic order and the fear of disintegration -- The garden of pansies, or 'no communists or cocksuckers in the library' -- 5. The Company and the Campus -- Security fetishism -- Security intellectuals -- Closing gambit: return the gift.