Michael Dillon
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Michael Dillon is a 20th century political theorist. He is most noted for Politics of Security, an influential[citation needed] critique of status quo modes of governance. In Politics of Security, Dillon argues the importance of linking metaphysics to politics, and recognizing the problems that he views as inherent in the structure. Specifically, Dillon believes that a static notion of justice imposed by what he deems to be the harshly logical, security driven, Western society is the cause of a replication of a system of power. Dillon, heavily influenced by famous Nazi Martin Heidegger, advocates ontological questioning as a first step towards rethinking politics.
Dillon is a professor of International Relations at the University of Lancaster. Dillon recently renegotiated his contract with Lancaster University, which has pleased many of his students[citation needed] in the department of Politics and International Relations, but dismayed others.
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It is often alleged that Dillon's lectures, like those of other postmodernists, consist of a series buzzwords strung together without any real meaning.[citation needed]
