دانلود کتاب States of Violence: War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die

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Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 13
1 Introduction: Interpreting the Violent State......Page 15
From the State of Nature to State Violence......Page 16
Sovereignty and State Violence......Page 18
Overview of the Book......Page 20
PART I ON THE FORMS OF STATE KILLING......Page 37
2 The Innocuousness of State Lethality in an Age of National Security......Page 39
Documents of State......Page 46
2002 National Security Strategy......Page 51
The 9/11 Commission Report......Page 55
War as a Variation on a Theme of Lethality......Page 58
National Strategy for Victory in Iraq......Page 59
2006 National Security Strategy......Page 61
Conclusion......Page 63
3 Oedipal Sovereignty and the War in Iraq......Page 65
Death......Page 67
The Structure of Oedipal Sovereignty......Page 73
Oedipal Sovereignty, Hobbes, and Schmitt......Page 77
The Contradictions of Sovereignty......Page 81
Liberal-Humanitarian Justifications for the War in Iraq......Page 83
Oedipal Sovereignty and Instrumental Rationality......Page 89
4 Sacrifice and Sovereignty......Page 97
Outsourcing Sacrifice and Private Military Contractors......Page 102
The Family and the Sovereign......Page 116
Sacrifice and the Detainee......Page 125
Conclusion......Page 138
New World Security......Page 141
If This Language Becomes Law......Page 143
Due Process......Page 146
Atypical and Significant......Page 150
Koch v. Lewis......Page 154
6 From Time to Torture: The Hellish Future of the Criminal Sentence......Page 164
Jesus Is Dead......Page 167
Death and (In-)Dignity......Page 170
Terri Schiavo\'s Death......Page 176
The New Sentence......Page 180
The Child in the Broom Closet......Page 183
In the Broom Closets......Page 187
Sweeping out the Broom Closet......Page 191
Captive Audiences......Page 196
No Exit......Page 203
8 The Lethality of the Canadian State\'s (Re)cognition of Indigenous Peoples......Page 206
The Lethality of State Sight and Speech......Page 207
Sovereign (Re)cognition: The Royal Proclamation......Page 211
Simplification: The Indian Act......Page 213
Assimilation: The White Paper......Page 222
Recognition......Page 225
Sovereign Reconciliation......Page 227
Simplification: The Law of Recognition......Page 229
Assimilation: The Law of Reconcilation......Page 235
Conclusion......Page 239
PART II INVESTIGATING THE DISCOURSES OF DEATH......Page 241
9 Death in the First Person......Page 243
10 Open Secrets, or The Postscript of Capital Punishment......Page 259
Taking Executions Seriously......Page 262
First Words: Execution as Pretext......Page 267
Secrecy and Literary Form......Page 270
Last Words: The Stranger\'s Failure of Imagination......Page 272
Seeing for Oneself......Page 277
Coda: Orwell as Witness......Page 280
Capital Punishment: Moral or Political......Page 284
Sovereignty and the Right to Death......Page 296
Abolition or Reform?......Page 300
A Detour through Doctrine: The Problem of Death Penalty \'\'Volunteers\'\'......Page 302
The International Perspective......Page 306
Ethical Exception?......Page 308
12 No Mercy......Page 311
Index......Page 323