LEADER 03197nam 2200613 450 001 9910461099403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-62895-242-3 010 $a1-60917-470-4 035 $a(CKB)3710000000470535 035 $a(EBL)2196784 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001546461 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16141173 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001546461 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14796223 035 $a(PQKB)10211878 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3433763 035 $a(OCoLC)919104761 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47392 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2196784 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3433763 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11091501 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2196784 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000470535 100 $a20150903h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe barren sacrifice $ean essay on political violence /$fPaul Dumouchel ; translated by Mary Baker 210 1$aEast Lansing :$cMichigan State University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (242 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in violence, mimesis, and culture 300 $aTranslation of Le sacrifice inutile : essai sur violence politque. 311 $a1-61186-183-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-203) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. Solidarity and enmity -- 2. The state, violence, and groups -- 3. Territory and war -- 4. The traitor and reason -- 5. Indifference and charity -- 6. Social justice and territory -- Epilogue. 330 $aAccording to political theory, the primary function of the modern state is to protect its citizens--both from each other and from external enemies. Yet it is the states that essentially commit major forms of violence, such as genocides, ethnic cleansings, and large-scale massacres, against their own citizens. In this book Paul Dumouchel argues that this paradoxical reversal of the state?s primary function into violence against its own members is not a mere accident but an ever-present possibility that is inscribed in the structure of the modern state. Modern states need enemies to exist and to persist, not because they are essentially evil but because modern politics constitutes a violent means of protecting us against our own violence. If they cannot--if we cannot--find enemies outside the state, they will find them inside. However, this institution is today coming to an end, not in the sense that states are disappearing, but in the sense that they are increasingly failing to protect us from our own violence. That is why the violent sacrifices that they ask from us, in wars and even in times of peace, have now become barren. 410 0$aStudies in violence, mimesis, and culture. 606 $aPolitical violence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPolitical violence. 676 $a303.690 700 $aDumouchel$b Paul$0447488 702 $aBaker$b Mary 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461099403321 996 $aThe barren sacrifice$92480190 997 $aUNINA