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Book Review: General Politics: The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

human act. These conclusions are demonstrated through charting the historical evolution of warfare from Ancient Greek to modern-era conflicts. This approach at once demonstrates the classical relationship of humans with warfare and how sociotechnological developments are beginning to alter that interaction. The first three chapters of the book draw heavily on classical readings of Greek history and philosophy. By also charting a course of historical explanation through some of the most prominent philosophical minds of the past several centuries, including Descartes and Habermas, Coker uses these initial chapters to set the stage for his further analysis, describing the Greek form of warfare as well as his envisaged post-human state of warfare. These chapters demonstrate the qualitative, philosophical approach of the rest of the chapters, which proceed to demonstrate how particular methods of technologically advanced warfare interact with this process of dehumanisation as the Greek, human ideal of war is replaced with the posthuman one. Coker’s argument is compelling. His description of warfare as intrinsically human – demonstrated through numerous sources of literature across a wide time period – is difficult to dismiss. Likewise the description of a post-human form of warfare, where the Geeks have supplanted the Greeks with their notion of war as ‘the heart of their humanity’ (p. xi) is similarly well supported. Coker’s first three chapters, in which the trends of human relations with warfare are laid out, are well written; however, one might object that they are overly drawn out as major points are made well and then re-asserted with slight variation. The final chapters of the book, however, dealing with cyber warfare, robotics and biologically altered soldiers, and discussing how these technologicallydriven forms of war are tipping the balance of relations in warfare away from the human and towards a human abstraction, make for a captivating read.