Weird John Brown Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics

Name: Weird John Brown Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
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ISBN: 9780804793308

ISBN-10: 0804793301

ISBN-13: 9780804793308

Edition: 2014

Authors: Ted A. Smith

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Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to lifeand digs deep into the American political imaginationthrough a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, the nineteenth-century abolitionist who took up arms against the state in the name of a higher law.…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English