Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism write by Thomas W. Simon. This book was released on 2016. Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Naming Violence
Naming Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naming Violence write by Mathias Thaler. This book was released on 2018-09-11. Naming Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Much is at stake when we choose a word for a form of violence: whether a conflict is labeled civil war or genocide, whether we refer to “enhanced interrogation techniques” or to “torture,” whether a person is called a “terrorist” or a “patriot.” Do these decisions reflect the rigorous application of commonly accepted criteria, or are they determined by power structures and partisanship? How is the language we use for violence entangled with the fight against it? In Naming Violence, Mathias Thaler articulates a novel perspective on the study of violence that demonstrates why the imagination matters for political theory. His analysis of the politics of naming charts a middle ground between moralism and realism, arguing that political theory ought to question whether our existing vocabulary enables us to properly identify, understand, and respond to violence. He explores how narrative art, thought experiments, and historical events can challenge and enlarge our existing ways of thinking about violence. Through storytelling, hypothetical situations, and genealogies, the imagination can help us see when definitions of violence need to be revisited by shedding new light on prevalent norms and uncovering the contingent history of ostensibly self-evident beliefs. Naming Violence demonstrates the importance of political theory to debates about violence across a number of different disciplines from film studies to history.
Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism
Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism write by Thomas W. Simon. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Genocide, Torture, and Terrorism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are understandably reluctant to "rank" moral atrocities. What is worse, genocide or terrorism? In this book, Thomas W. Simon argues that politicians use this to manipulate our sense of injustice by exaggerating terrorism and minimizing torture. He advocates for an international criminal code that encourages humanitarian intervention.
Confronting Evils
Confronting Evils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Confronting Evils write by Claudia Card. This book was released on 2010-07-22. Confronting Evils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on the inexcusability - rather than the culpability - of atrocities, Card examines the tension between responding to evils and preserving humanitarian values. This stimulating and often provocative book contends that understanding the evils in terrorism, torture and genocide enables us to recognise similar evils in everyday life: daily life under oppressive regimes and in racist environments; violence against women, including in the home; violence and executions in prisons; hate crimes; and violence against animals. Card analyses torture, terrorism and genocide in the light of recent atrocities, considering whether there can be moral justifications for terrorism and torture, and providing conceptual tools to distinguish genocide from non-genocidal mass slaughter.
Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture
Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture write by Steven P. Lee. This book was released on 2006-11-22. Intervention, Terrorism, and Torture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book asks whether just war theory and its rules for determining when war is justified remains adequate to the challenges posed by contemporary developments. Some argue that the nature of contemporary war makes these rules obsolete. By carefully examining the phenomena of intervention, terrorism, and torture from a number of different perspectives, the essays in this book explore this complex set of issues with insight and clarity.
