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States of Violence - War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die (Paperback)
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States of Violence - War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die (Paperback)
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The book brings together scholarship on three different forms of
state violence, examining each for what it can tell us about the
conditions under which states use violence and the significance of
violence to our understanding of states. The contributors to this
book demonstrate that states of violence thus have a history and
sociology. Yet wherever the state acts violently, the legitimacy of
its acts must be engaged with the real facts of war, capital
punishment, and the ugly realities of death. This book calls into
question the legitimacy of state uses of violence and mounts a
sustained effort at interpretation, sense making, and critique. It
suggests that condemning the state s decisions to use lethal force
is not a simple matter of abolishing the death penalty or to take
another exemplary example of the killing state demanding that the
state engage only in just (publicly declared and justified) wars,
pointing out that even such overt instances of lethal force are
more elusive as targets of critique than one might think. Indeed,
altering such decisions may do little to change the essential
relationship of the state to violence. To change that relationship
we must also attend to the violent state as a state of mind, a
state of mind that is not just a social or psychological condition
but also a moral commitment and/or a philosophical position.
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