Weird John Brown : divine violence and the limits of ethics /
Smith, Ted A., 1968-
Weird John Brown : divine violence and the limits of ethics / Ted A. Smith. - 1 online resource - Encountering traditions . - Encountering traditions. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The touchstone -- The fate of law -- Divine violence as the relief of law -- The higher law -- The politics of pardon -- Not yet the end.
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 life-and digs deep into the American political imagination-through a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, t.
9780804793452 080479345X
Brown, John, 1800-1859 --Ethics.
Brown, John, 1800-1859
Political violence--Moral and ethical aspects.
Political violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Political theology.
Ethics, Modern.
Violence politique--Aspect moral.
Violence politique--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Théologie politique.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.--United States
Political violence--Religious aspects--Christianity
Ethics
Ethics, Modern
Political theology
Political violence--Moral and ethical aspects
Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects
United States
Electronic books.
E451
973.7/116092
Weird John Brown : divine violence and the limits of ethics / Ted A. Smith. - 1 online resource - Encountering traditions . - Encountering traditions. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The touchstone -- The fate of law -- Divine violence as the relief of law -- The higher law -- The politics of pardon -- Not yet the end.
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 life-and digs deep into the American political imagination-through a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, t.
9780804793452 080479345X
Brown, John, 1800-1859 --Ethics.
Brown, John, 1800-1859
Political violence--Moral and ethical aspects.
Political violence--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
Political theology.
Ethics, Modern.
Violence politique--Aspect moral.
Violence politique--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Théologie politique.
HISTORY--State & Local--General.--United States
Political violence--Religious aspects--Christianity
Ethics
Ethics, Modern
Political theology
Political violence--Moral and ethical aspects
Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects
United States
Electronic books.
E451
973.7/116092