Thou Shalt Not Kill: A Political and Theological Dialogue

by Angelo Scola and Adriana Cavarero

Book Overview

In this fascinating and rare little book, a leading Italian feminist philosopher and the Archbishop of Milan face off over the contemporary meaning of the biblical commandment not to kill.The result is a series of erudite and wide-ranging arguments that move from murder and suicide to just war and drone strikes, from bioethics and biopolitics to hermeneutics and philology, from Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823267350
• ISBN13: 9780823267354
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 7.4"