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- Condition
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- 9780804793308
- ISBN
- 0804793301
- Binding
- TP
- Book Title
- Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits o
- Subject Area
- Religion, Philosophy, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Publication Name
- Weird John Brown : Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Theology, Christian Theology / Systematic, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Violence in Society, United States / General, Historical
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Series
- Encountering Traditions Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804793301
ISBN-13
9780804793308
eBay Product ID (ePID)
202500137
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Weird John Brown : Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics
Subject
Theology, Christian Theology / Systematic, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Violence in Society, United States / General, Historical
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Philosophy, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Series
Encountering Traditions Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-025815
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Smith's book is different, and immensely resonant, for it theorizes what might be at stake--ethically--for America's current political life [He] writes with clarity and precision, as well as with a storyteller's sense of narrative drive and detail."--Andrew Taylor, Journal of American History, "This volume, [...], powerfully combines theology and political theory. Smith argues that contemporary practical reasoning tries to justify or reject actions based on 'universalizable moral obligations that play out within immanent networks or cause and effect' . . . [S]tudents of ethics or political theology will find some challenging thought here . . . Recommended."--R. J. Meagher, CHOICE, "John Brown is perhaps the most polarizing figure in America's past, 'the stone in the historian's shoe,' as scholars have acknowledged. Ted Smith's Weird John Brown removes the stone, as it were, and reframes the debate. It examines Brown on Brown's own terms, from the perspective of political theology. A brilliantly original and compelling book, it offers a new way to understand Brown, and its fresh insights on almost every page resonate deeply in a post 9/11 world."--John Stauffer, Harvard University, "John Brown is perhaps the most polarizing figure in America's past, 'the stone in the historian's shoe,' as scholars have acknowledged. Ted Smith's Weird John Brown removes the stone, as it were, and reframes the debate. It examines Brown on Brown's own terms, from the perspective of political theology. A brilliantly original and compelling book, it offers a new way to understand Brown, and its fresh insights on almost every page resonate deeply in a post 9/11 world."—John Stauffer, Harvard University, "Ted Smith has given us something that heretofore has not existed, a very sophisticated philosophical and theological reflection on John Brown and the question of divine violence. Smith not only analyzes the shortcomings of ethical reasoning and moral vision locked within an immanent frame against the backdrop of the complexity of John Brown, but he also explores the racial unconscious embedded in the American political unconscious in ways both refreshing and convincing. This book teaches John Brown. It gives us a John Brown restored to his preeminent place as a mirror of the dilemmas of an American world, a white world that has forgotten we exist in God's world."--Willie James Jennings, Duke University, "Ted Smith has given us something that heretofore has not existed, a very sophisticated philosophical and theological reflection on John Brown and the question of divine violence. Smith not only analyzes the shortcomings of ethical reasoning and moral vision locked within an immanent frame against the backdrop of the complexity of John Brown, but he also explores the racial unconscious embedded in the American political unconscious in ways both refreshing and convincing. This book teaches John Brown. It gives us a John Brown restored to his preeminent place as a mirror of the dilemmas of an American world, a white world that has forgotten we exist in God's world."—Willie James Jennings, Duke University, "By providing a profound ethical meditation on Brown and his fellow raiders to challenge how people, particularly Americans, think about morality, [...] Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in, what we should do, and of the important of going beyond just what we out to do."--Franklin Rausch, New Books in Christian Studies
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
973.7/116092
Synopsis
The book rehabilitates a concept of "divine violence" to reconsider the story of abolitionist John Brown and to develop a vision for a post-secular American politics., 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, the nineteenth-century abolitionist who took up arms against the state in the name of a higher law. Smith argues that the key to limiting violence is not its separation from religion, but its connection to richer and more critical modes of religious reflection. Weird John Brown develops a negative political theology that challenges both the ways we remember American history and the ways we think about the nature, meaning, and exercise of violence.
LC Classification Number
E451
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Copyright Date
2014
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