The Barren Sacrifice: An Essay on Political Violence

by Paul Dumouchel

According to political theory, the primary function of the modern state is to protect its citizens--both from each other and from external enemies. Yet it is the states that essentially commit major forms of violence, such as genocides, ethnic cleansings, and large-scale massacres, against their own citizens. In this book Paul Dumouchel argues that this paradoxical reversal of the state's primary function into violence against its own members is not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611861837
• ISBN13: 9781611861839
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"