Sacred violence : torture, terror, and sovereignty

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.
Subjects:
Torture.
Sovereignty.
Political violence.
Terrorism > Prevention > Law and legislation.
sovereignty.
terrorism.
LAW > International.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Political violence
Sovereignty
Terrorism > Prevention > Law and legislation
Torture
Folter
Souveränität
Terrorismus
Bekämpfung
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Table of Contents:
  • Torture and sovereignty
  • Torture and international law
  • The current debate : torture in the War on Terror
  • A primer on political violence
  • Crossing the border between law and sovereignty.

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