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Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
University of Michigan Press, 2008 Cloth: 978-0-472-07047-3 | Paper: 978-0-472-05047-5 | eISBN: 978-0-472-02294-6 Library of Congress Classification K5304.K34 2008 Dewey Decimal Classification 341.6
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to political theology, which reveals that torture and terror are, essentially, forms of sacrifice. Kahn forces us to acknowledge what we don't want to see: that we remain deeply committed to a violent politics beyond law. Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights. Cover Illustration: "Abu Ghraib 67, 2005" by Fernando Botero. Courtesy of the artist and the American University Museum. See other books on: Political violence | Prevention | Sovereignty | Terror | Terrorism See other titles from University of Michigan Press |
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Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
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University of Michigan Press, 2008
Cloth: 978-0-472-07047-3
Paper: 978-0-472-05047-5
eISBN: 978-0-472-02294-6
Cloth: 978-0-472-07047-3
Paper: 978-0-472-05047-5
eISBN: 978-0-472-02294-6
In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to political theology, which reveals that torture and terror are, essentially, forms of sacrifice. Kahn forces us to acknowledge what we don't want to see: that we remain deeply committed to a violent politics beyond law.
Paul W. Kahn is Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School and Director of the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights.
Cover Illustration: "Abu Ghraib 67, 2005" by Fernando Botero. Courtesy of the artist and the American University Museum.
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