Sacred violence : torture, terror, and sovereignty / Paul W. Kahn.

"In Sacred Violence, Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. 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, esse...

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Main Author: Kahn, Paul W., 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]
Series:Law, meaning, and violence.
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