Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty

ISBN-10: 0472070479
ISBN-13: 9780472070473
Series: Sacred Violence
Category: Philosophy (General)
Pages: 233
Language: English
Published: 2008-08-04
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Author: Paul W. Kahn

Description

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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Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
- 2009-09-23
- 248 pages
- Ebook
- University of Michigan Press
Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
- 2008-08-04
- 233 pages
- Paperback
- University of Michigan Press
Sacred Violence: Political Religion in a Secular Age
- 2014-08-27
- 280 pages
- Paperback
- Palgrave Macmillan
Sacred Violence: Political Religion in a Secular Age
- 2014-08-05
- 270 pages
- Ebook
- Springer

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