Sacred Violence: Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty

by Paul W. Kahn

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472050478
• ISBN13: 9780472050475
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.9"