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Paperback Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics Book

ISBN: 0804793301

ISBN13: 9780804793308

Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics

(Part of the Encountering Traditions Series)

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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...

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