In their efforts of marketing and conversion, both globalization and the religious are forms of total war disguised as peace. The total or global nature of this disguised war leads to what Leonard Lawlor calls “the problem of the worst”.
Leonard Lawlor
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He recently published “This Is Not Sufficient”: An Essay on Animality and Human Nature in Derrida (Columbia University Press, 2007).